• 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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    financial support provided by Google. The first recipient, in 1966, was Alan Perlis. The youngest recipient was Donald Knuth, who won in 1974 at the age...
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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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  • 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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  • to a larger audience, including students and office workers. In 1961, Alan Perlis suggested that all university freshmen at Carnegie Technical Institute...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • practitioners from 11 countries, including Edsger Dijkstra, Friedrich L. Bauer, Alan Perlis, and Peter Naur. The term "software engineering" was deliberately chosen...
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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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    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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    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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  • Those who have defended the "virtual mind" reply include Marvin Minsky, Alan Perlis, David Chalmers, Ned Block and J. Cole (again, according to Cole 2004)...
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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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  • source to an intermediate language, IT (Internal Translator), written by Alan Perlis and others at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1957. The second...
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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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  • business school. Along with the computer, Allen Newell and Alan Perlis joined the faculty, with Perlis being put in charge of the computing facilities. Edward...
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  • University professor, researcher in animal cognition, trained Alex (parrot) Alan Perlis (M.S. 1949, PhD 1950) – computer scientist, professor, pioneer of programming...
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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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