Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) was an American computer scientist and professor at Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University and...
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"Epigrams on Programming" is an article by Alan Perlis published in 1982, for ACM's SIGPLAN journal. The epigrams are a series of short, programming-language-neutral...
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Rutishauser, and Klaus Samelson (from the GAMM) John Backus, Charles Katz, Alan Perlis, and Joseph Henry Wegstein (from the ACM). The language was originally...
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Turing Award (redirect from Alan turing award)
financial support provided by Google. The first recipient, in 1966, was Alan Perlis, of Carnegie Mellon University. The youngest recipient was Donald Knuth...
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Turing tarpit (category Alan Turing)
little or no support for common tasks. The phrase was coined in 1982 by Alan Perlis in the Epigrams on Programming: 54. Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which...
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algorithmic thinking, and computational literacy by computing pioneers like Alan Perlis and Donald Knuth, the term computational thinking was first used by Seymour...
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is essential to prevent the introduction of meaningless constructs. Alan Perlis was similarly dismissive of the idea. The specification of a programming...
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syntax, and the surface syntax can easily be modified. For example, Alan Perlis once quipped in "Epigrams on Programming", in a reference to bracket-delimited...
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design and implementation of small databases. His doctoral advisor was Alan Perlis. His roommate at Yale was economist Paul Krugman. Levine was a co-founder...
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John Backus Friedrich L. Bauer Hermann Bottenbruch Charles Katz Alan Perlis Heinz Rutishauser Klaus Samelson Joseph Henry Wegstein MAD Bruce Arden Bernard...
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Williamson (Ph.D. 1963), 2009 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences Alan Perlis (B.S. 1943, faculty member 1956–1971), compiler construction, 1966; first...
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Julien Green, Charles Katz, John McCarthy, Alan Jay Perlis, and Joseph Henry Wegstein (from the USA). Alan Perlis gave a vivid description of the meeting:...
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Oettinger, a machine translation researcher from Harvard University Alan Perlis, an Artificial Intelligence researcher from Carnegie Institute of Technology...
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John Backus Friedrich L. Bauer Hermann Bottenbruch Charles Katz Alan Perlis Heinz Rutishauser Klaus Samelson Joseph Henry Wegstein MAD Bruce Arden Bernard...
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Economics, was the subject of the book and subsequent film A Beautiful Mind. Alan Perlis, a 1943 graduate, was a pioneer in programming languages and recipient...
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Julien Green, Charles Katz, John McCarthy, Alan Jay Perlis, and Joseph Henry Wegstein (from the US). Alan Perlis gave a vivid description of the meeting:...
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Dijkstra Archive. Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines...
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John Backus Friedrich L. Bauer Hermann Bottenbruch Charles Katz Alan Perlis Heinz Rutishauser Klaus Samelson Joseph Henry Wegstein MAD Bruce Arden Bernard...
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one of the "founding fathers" of artificial intelligence, together with Alan Turing, Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell, and Herbert A. Simon. McCarthy, Minsky...
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Strategic Defense Initiative activism Scientific career Doctoral advisor Alan Perlis Everard Mott Williams Doctoral students Richard J. Lipton Steven M. Bellovin...
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John Backus Friedrich L. Bauer Hermann Bottenbruch Charles Katz Alan Perlis Heinz Rutishauser Klaus Samelson Joseph Henry Wegstein MAD Bruce Arden Bernard...
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Carnegie Mellon University) beginning in 1959. With the assistance of Alan Perlis, she shifted fields to mathematics in 1960. She married Manuel Blum,...
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John Backus Friedrich L. Bauer Hermann Bottenbruch Charles Katz Alan Perlis Heinz Rutishauser Klaus Samelson Joseph Henry Wegstein MAD Bruce Arden Bernard...
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John Backus Friedrich L. Bauer Hermann Bottenbruch Charles Katz Alan Perlis Heinz Rutishauser Klaus Samelson Joseph Henry Wegstein MAD Bruce Arden Bernard...
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John Backus Friedrich L. Bauer Hermann Bottenbruch Charles Katz Alan Perlis Heinz Rutishauser Klaus Samelson Joseph Henry Wegstein MAD Bruce Arden Bernard...
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John Backus Friedrich L. Bauer Hermann Bottenbruch Charles Katz Alan Perlis Heinz Rutishauser Klaus Samelson Joseph Henry Wegstein MAD Bruce Arden Bernard...
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Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, including the work of Alan Perlis and Raj Reddy, and the growth of the computer science and artificial...
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John Backus Friedrich L. Bauer Hermann Bottenbruch Charles Katz Alan Perlis Heinz Rutishauser Klaus Samelson Joseph Henry Wegstein MAD Bruce Arden Bernard...
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September 20, 2021. Retrieved November 17, 2020. "A.M Turing Award Winners: Alan J. Perlis". Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on...
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John Backus Friedrich L. Bauer Hermann Bottenbruch Charles Katz Alan Perlis Heinz Rutishauser Klaus Samelson Joseph Henry Wegstein MAD Bruce Arden Bernard...
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