1979年的图灵奖获得者-Kenneth Eugene Iverson

Kenneth Eugene Iverson (12/17/1920—10/19/2004)

 

1979 第十四位 (1979 )

 

(Turing Award Citation)

 

Citation

For his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows as APL, for his contributions to the implementation of interactive systems, to educational uses of APL, and to programming language theory and practice.

 

  ( Kenneth E. Iverson ) APL程序语言和(计算机)数学符号方面的先驱性的工作;表彰其在教育和普及APL语言和程序语言理论和实践方面的交互式系统的实现工作。

 

 

APL(A Programming Language):

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_programming_language

 

http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/apl/apl.html

 

 

History of APL: http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/projects/apl/

 

APL On the Net: http://www.chilton.com/~jimw/aplonnet.html

 

APL Developer Network: http://apldn.apl2000.com/default.aspx

 

Turing Award Lecture(图灵奖演讲文章)

 

Notation as a Tool of Thought. Commun. ACM 23(8): 444-465(1980)

 

Kenneth Iverson :

 

Kenneth Iverson Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson

 

Kennneth Iverson的名言和奇闻逸事 http://keiapl.info/anec

Kenneth Eugene Iverson生于19201217Alberta,加拿大去世于2004年多伦多加拿大。

 

Ken1951年从Queen's University获得其数学学士学位同年(1951)于哈佛大学获得其数学硕士学位1954年在哈佛大学获得其应用数学博士学位。

 

1960KenIBM公司与Adin Falkoff合作发明了APL语言。

 

90年代Ken还发明了J语言。关于J语言的资料,可参见:

http://www.jsoftware.com/

http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/math-talk/functional1/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_programming_language   

另外,读者可参见计算机程序语言历史

http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html#01

http://www.levenez.com/lang/

从图表中,读者可以清晰的了解从1954年开始的Fortran语言的计算机程序语言的发展与变迁。

 

值得注意的是,J语言的另一个发明人是来自中国香港的Roger Hui.关于Roger Hui的信息可参见:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hui

 

 

Kenneth Iverson历史照片:

 

 


Ken at Kiln Farm with a prototype J Ultimate sportdisc (photo by Jana Michaud)


Ken with Donald McIntyre at the J User conference 2000


Ken and Richard Brown work in the evening at the "J in the Math Classroom" workshop in June 1999


Taking a break

 

  转自http://www.xtrj.org/

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