{"id":2355,"date":"2020-04-06T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T12:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2020-04-06T13:21:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T12:21:10","slug":"farewell-to-professor-richard-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2020\/04\/06\/farewell-to-professor-richard-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Professor Richard Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"__pbConvBody\">\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<p>Richard Jones, Head of School of Computing and Professor of Computer Systems retires today after 35 years at the University of Kent. He\u00a0joined Kent as a member of staff in 1985 after doing a Master&#8217;s programme, with a project supervised by Simon Thompson, who also retires today.<\/p>\n<p>Dick has had a distinguished academic career with his research mainly focusing on\u00a0dynamic memory management and has published the definitive books on<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/gchandbook.org\/\">garbage collection<\/a>. His teaching has mainly been around the area of\u00a0programming languages and systems.<\/p>\n<p>Dick has received external recognition for his work and was made a<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/news\/2006\/ACM_RJones\/\">Distinguished Scientist<\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>of the<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acm.org\/\">ACM<\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>in 2006, and an<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/newsarchive\/2005\/HonFellow\/\">Honorary Fellow of the University of Glasgow<\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>in July 2005. He received IBM Faculty Awards in 2003, 2004 and 2005 and was elected to<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/aito.org\/\">AITO<\/a>, Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets, in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 Dick was appointed as Head of the School of Computing and he has led the School through times of great change with purpose and integrity. He said: &#8216;I had hoped to be retiring under different circumstances, but I&#8217;d like to thank you all for the support you have given me.\u00a0 We are undoubtedly facing difficult times, both as a university and as a country. However, I retire in the knowledge that we have a fantastic School with talented, hard working and convivial colleagues in every role. I wish you all the very best for the future.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>We wish Dick well with his retirement and the extra time he has to spend on his outside interests of cycling, sailing and grandchildren. We hope to give him a better send off when we are allowed to meet in person again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Jones, Head of School of Computing and Professor of Computer Systems retires today after 35 years at the University of Kent. He\u00a0joined Kent as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2020\/04\/06\/farewell-to-professor-richard-jones\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":1077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}