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Machine Solutions of Linear Differential Equations – Applications to a Dynamic Economic Model (1954) Doctoral advisor. Howard Aiken. Wassily Leontief. Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920 – 19 October 2004) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the programming language APL.
May 1, 2024 · Kenneth E. Iverson (born December 17, 1920, Camrose, Alberta, Canada—died October 19, 2004, Toronto, Ontario) was a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist who devised a very compact high-level computer programming language called APL (the initials of the title of his book A Programming Language [1962]). The language made efficient use ...
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APL (named after the book A Programming Language) is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson. Its central datatype is the multidimensional array. It uses a large range of special graphic symbols to represent most functions and operators, leading to very concise code.
Kenneth E. Iverson. Born December 17, 1920, Camrose, Alberta, Canada; with Adin Falkoff, inventor and implementer of the programming language APL. Education: BA, mathematics, Queen's University at Kingston, Ont., 1950; MA, mathematics, Harvard University, 1951; PhD, applied mathematics, Harvard University, 1954.
Oct 19, 2004 · CITATION. For his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows as APL, for his contributions to the implementation of interactive systems, to educational uses of APL, and to programming language theory and practice.
Kenneth Eugene Iverson (1920 – 2004) was a computer scientist. He won the Turing Award in 1979 for "For his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows as APL, for his contributions to the implementation of interactive systems, to educational uses of APL, and to ...
Kenneth E. Iverson IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Key Words and Phrases: APL, mathematical notation CR Category: 4.2 Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct
