Alan Perlis
Alan J. 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.
Background
- Born in
- Pittsburgh
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCarnegie Mellon UniversityTaylor Allderdice High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Turing Award🏆 Computer Pioneer Award🏆 honorary doctorate🏆 honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo🏆 honorary doctor of Purdue University
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Philip Franklin
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Mary Shaw📖 Zohar Manna📖 David Parnas
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"The vision we have of conversational programming takes in much more than rapid turn around time and convenient debugging aids: our most interesting programs are never wrong and never final. What is ne…"
"116: You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program."
"55: LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing."
"19: A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing."
"79: A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."
"42: You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."
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Timeline
1922
Born
Birth1990
Died
Death
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