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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.
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 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.
Feb 7, 1990 · Alan J Perlis was a pioneer of advanced programming techniques and compiler construction. He developed the IT language, a machine-independent language that influenced many other languages, and led the ACM group that defined the International Algorithmic Language (IAL).
Learn about the life and achievements of Alan J. Perlis, a computer science leader who helped define Algol, founded the Communications of the ACM, and taught at Carnegie and Yale. Read his talk on "Computing in the Fifties" and his 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.
