Died 1990-02-07.
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Alan Perlis
Alan Jay Perlis was an American computer scientist and professor at Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University. He is best known for his pioneering work in programming languages and in 1966 he became the first recipient of the ACM Turing Award.
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Born 1 April 1922 · Died 7 February 1990 · Q62861
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1990· 2 entries
“We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.”
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (1985).
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1982· 1 entry
Wrote an article, "Epigrams on Programming", for the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) SIGPLAN journal, describing in one-sentence distillations many of the things he had learned about programming over his c
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1977· 1 entry
Was elected to the National Academy of Engineering
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1971· 1 entry
Perlis moved to Yale University to take the chair of computer science and hold the Eugene Higgins chair
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1966· 3 entries
Awarded Turing Award (1966).
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Became the first recipient of the ACM Turing Award
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According to the citation, "for his influence in the area of advanced programming techniques and compiler construction
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1962· 2 entries
Was elected president of the Association for Computing Machinery
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Career landmark: president (1962–1964).
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1956· 2 entries
Moved to the Carnegie Institute of Technology
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(described by Donald Knuth as the first successful compiler), and as a member of the team that developed the programming language ALGOL
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1950· 1 entry
Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (1950).
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1949· 1 entry
Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master of Science (1949).
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1943· 2 entries
Received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (later renamed Carnegie Mellon University)
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Studied at Carnegie Mellon University, Bachelor of Science (1943).
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-04-01.
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