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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 .
- On Integral Equations, Their Solution by Iteration and Analytic Continuation (1950)
ALAN J. PERLIS, one of the leading figures in the development of modern computer science, died of a heart attack on February 7, 1990, in New Haven, Connecticut, at the age of sixty-seven. Perlis was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977. As one of the pioneers in establishing the fledgling discipline of computer science, Perlis ...
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Feb 7, 1990 · Alan J Perlis was born on April 1, 1922 into a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended primary schools in his hometown, starting with the Colfax Public School in his Squirrel Hill neighborhood. In 1933 Perlis enrolled in the public but prestigious Taylor Allderdice High School. Six years later he entered Carnegie Institute of ...
Alan Perlis was named professor and chairman of the Mathematics Department at Carnegie in 1960 and he also remained as director of its computation center. Then, in 1962, he became co-director of a graduate program in systems and communications science, whose goal was the development of a graduate program in what has now become computer science.
May 1, 2024 · Alan Jay Perlis (born April 1, 1922, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.—died Feb. 7, 1990, New Haven, Conn.) 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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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 ...
By November 1956 a version of the IT compiler was operating on the IBM 650, and Perlis with his coworkers went on to develop a succession of algebraic language compilers and assemblers. In 1960 Perlis was appointed as professor and chairman of the mathematics department at Carnegie Tech while continuing as director ofthe computation center.
