Alan Perlis
Alan Perlis · Technology & Engineering
First-ever Turing Award laureate (1966); pioneer of programming-language design and ALGOL
1922, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States — 1990, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
United States
Alan Perlis is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — First-ever Turing Award laureate (1966); pioneer of programming-language design and ALGOL
Perlis, an American Jewish computer scientist, helped design the ALGOL programming language and pioneered the academic study of programming. In 1966 he became the very first recipient of the ACM Turing Award, computing's highest honor, for his influence on advanced programming techniques and compiler construction. He founded early computer-science departments at Carnegie and Yale.
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First-ever Turing Award laureate (1966); pioneer of programming-language design and ALGOL
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Turing Award
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