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John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define syntaxes of formal languages.
John Backus The father of Fortran. Backus is best known as the father of Fortran, the first widely used, high-level programming language that helped open the door to modern computing.
Mar 17, 2007 · John Backus was an American mathematician best known for the invention of FORTRAN and for the BNF notation for describing the syntax of a programming language. View five larger pictures. Biography. John Backus's parents were Cecil Franklin Backus (1885-1966) and Elizabeth Warner Edsall (1904-1933).
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist and mathematician who led the team that designed FORTRAN (formula translation), the first important algorithmic language for computers. Restless as a young man, Backus found his niche in mathematics, earning a B.S. (1949) and an M.A. (1950) from.
Mar 20, 2007 · John W. Backus, who assembled and led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, which helped open the door to modern computing, died on Saturday at his...
Sep 5, 2023 · John Backus. Pioneer in computer programming languages, IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University, 1950-52. New, July 2022, video of Backus's 34-minute address to the Los Alamos International History of Computing Conference, June 1976. Minute 4:40: SSEC ; 20:00: Fortran; 29:00: BNF ; 29: Q&A...
Mar 17, 2007 · John Backus. United States – 1977. CITATION. For profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work on FORTRAN, and for seminal publication of formal procedures for the specification of programming languages. Short Annotated. Bibliography. ACM Turing Award. Lecture.
