Jean Ichbiah
Jean Ichbiah · Technology & Engineering
Chief designer of the Ada programming language.
1940, Paris, France — 2007, Massachusetts, United States
France · United States
Jean Ichbiah is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Chief designer of the Ada programming language.
Ichbiah was the chief designer of Ada, the strongly typed programming language developed for the US Department of Defense and widely used in aviation, defence and safety-critical systems. Born in Paris to Sephardic Jewish parents of Thessaloniki (Greek and Turkish) origin, he survived the Second World War in hiding in southern France before a career in computer science in France and the United States.
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Chief designer of the Ada programming language.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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