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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › John_BackusJohn Backus - Wikipedia

    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.

  3. www.britannica.com › biography › John-Warner-BackusJohn Warner Backus | Computer Science, Programming, FORTRAN

    John Warner Backus (born Dec. 3, 1924, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died March 17, 2007, Ashland, Ore.) was an American computer scientist and mathematician who led the team that designed FORTRAN (formula translation), the first important algorithmic language for computers.

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  5. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk › Biographies › BackusJohn Warner Backus - MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive

    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).

  6. www.ibm.com › history › john-backusJohn Backus - IBM

    A gifted problem-solver. Advancing through the ranks of IBM. Backus began his career at IBM purely by happenstance.

  7. amturing.acm.org › award_winners › backus_0703524John Backus - A.M. Turing Award Laureate

    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.

  8. www.columbia.edu › cu › computinghistoryJohn Backus - Columbia University

    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... See video (Thanks to Allen Olley for the tip)

  9. www.computer.org › profiles › john-backusJohn W. Backus - IEEE Computer Society

    John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924–March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), the almost universally used notation to define formal language syntax.