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Alan J. Perlis
Born(1922-04-01)April 1, 1922
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedFebruary 7, 1990(1990-02-07) (aged 67)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
  • B.S., Chemistry,
    Carnegie Mellon 1943
  • M.S., mathematics,
    MIT 1949
  • Ph.D., mathematics,
    MIT 1950
Known for
  • IT
  • ALGOL
  • APL
Awards
  • Turing Award, 1966
  • Computer Pioneer Award, 1985
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Institutions
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Purdue University
  • Yale University
Thesis On Integral Equations, Their Solution by Iteration and Analytic Continuation  (1950)
Doctoral advisorPhilip Franklin
Doctoral students
  • Gary Lindstrom
  • Zohar Manna
  • David Parnas
  • John R. Levine

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.[1]

  1. ^ Ulf Hashagen, Reinhard Keil-Slawik, Arthur L. Norberg (2002) History of Computing: Software Issues. p.26

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