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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alan_PerlisAlan Perlis - Wikipedia

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   Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) 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 was the first recipient of the Turing Award .

   • Thesis: On Integral Equations, Their Solution by Iteration and Analytic Continuation (1950)

   • Doctoral advisor: Philip Franklin

2. www.britannica.com › biography › Alan-Jay-PerlisAlan Jay Perlis | Pioneer of AI, Lisp & Algol | Britannica

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   May 1, 2024 · Alan Jay Perlis was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was the first winner, in 1966, of the A.M. Turing Award, given by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and recognized internationally as the highest honour in computer science.

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3. www.cs.yale.edu › homes › perlis-alanPerlisisms - "Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis

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   Perlisisms - "Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis. EPIGRAMS IN PROGRAMMING. 1. One man's constant is another man's variable. 2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process. 3. Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

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5. amturing.acm.org › award_winners › perlis_0132439A. J. Perlis - A.M. Turing Award Laureate

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   Feb 7, 1990 · Alan J Perlis was a pioneer of advanced programming techniques and compiler construction. He developed the IT language, a machine-independent language that influenced many other languages, and led the ACM group that defined the International Algorithmic Language (IAL).

6. history.computer.org › pioneers › perlisComputer Pioneers - Alan J. Perlis

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   Learn about the life and achievements of Alan J. Perlis, a computer science leader who helped define Algol, founded the Communications of the ACM, and taught at Carnegie and Yale. Read his talk on "Computing in the Fifties" and his classic one-liners.

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8. dl.acm.org › doi › 10Alan J. Perlis—1922–1990: a founding father of computer ...

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   May 1, 1990 · Alan J. Perlis was born in Pittsburgh on 1 April 1922 and died in New Haven, Connecticut, on 7 February 1990. He was renowned as a developer of programming systems and languages and as an educator--indeed, as a founding father of computer science as a ...

9. www.computer.org › profiles › alan-perlisAlan Jay Perlis - IEEE Computer Society

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   Learn about the life and achievements of Alan Jay Perlis, the first recipient of the Turing Award for his work on programming languages and compiler construction. He was also a leader in the fields of mathematics, computer science, and engineering.

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    Who is Alan Perlis?

    • Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award. Perlis was born to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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    How did Perlis get a computer?

    • Shortly after his arrival, Perlis persuaded Kossac and the university administrators to purchase the best medium size computer available at that time, the Datatron 205. In early 1955, Perlis’ team began the design of a “mathematical language compiler” for it, later named the IT language (for Internal Translator).

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    When did Perlis become a computer lab?

    • It was one of the first multi-machine computing installations, housing three different computers: ENIAC (transferred to BRL in 1947), EDVAC (transferred in 1949), and ORDVAC (transferred in the spring of 1951). In January 1952 Perlis came back to the finished and operational Project Whirlwind, now renamed the MIT Digital Computer Laboratory.

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    What did John Perlis learn about programming?

    • Perlis was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977. In 1982, he wrote an article, Epigrams on Programming, for ACM’s SIGPLAN journal, describing in one-sentence distillations many of the things he had learned about programming over his career. The epigrams have been widely quoted. He remained at Yale until his death in 1990.

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