Leslie Blackett Wilson (born 1930[1]) was chair of Computing Science at the University of Stirling, appointed in August 1979.
Before that, since 1951, he was a Senior Scientific Officer at the Naval Construction Research Establishment at Dunfermline.
[2] He has written four books in computer science and combinatorics.
His book Comparative Programming Languages was regarded among the major textbooks on programming languages[3] and has received positive reviews since its first edition.
[5] As a researcher, he is best known for his contributions to extensions of the stable marriage problem.