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Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) 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 was the first recipient of the Turing Award.
Feb 7, 1990 · At Purdue Alan Perlis began the research that would lead him to eminence. Shortly after his arrival, Perlis persuaded Kossac and the university administrators to purchase the best medium size computer available at that time, the Datatron 205.
Alan Jay Perlis was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was the first winner, in 1966, of the A.M. Turing Award, given by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and recognized internationally as the highest honour in computer science.
Perlisisms - "Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis. EPIGRAMS IN PROGRAMMING. 1. One man's constant is another man's variable. 2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process. 3. Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis. Born April 1, 1922, Pittsburgh, Pa.; died February 7, 1990, New Haven, Conn.; computer pioneer; leader in establishing computer science as a legitimate discipline; longtime developer of programming languages and programming techniques; author of classic one-liners.
ALAN J. PERLIS, one of the leading figures in the development of modern computer science, died of a heart attack on February 7, 1990, in New Haven, Connecticut, at the age of sixty-seven. Perlis was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.
Dec 3, 2018 · Alan Perlis: The First Computer Scientist - Pittsburgh Quarterly. by James H. Morris. Alan Perlis. December 3, 2018. I was a teenager in 1957 when the Russians launched Sputnik. In the national reaction to it I was inspired to pursue science.
