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Alan Jay Perlis | |
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| Born | April 1, 1922 |
| Died | February 7, 1990 (aged 67) |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Awards | Turing Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Association for Computing Machinery Carnegie Mellon University Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor | Philip Franklin |
| Doctoral students | Gary Lindstrom Zohar Manna David Parnas |
Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award.
Biography
Perlis was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1943, he received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army, where he became interested in mathematics. He then earned both a master's degree (1949) and a Ph.D. (1950) in mathematics at MIT. His doctoral dissertation was titled "On Integral Equations, Their Solution by Iteration and Analytic Continuation".
In 1952, he participated in Project Whirlwind. He joined the faculty at Purdue University and then moved to Carnegie Institute in 1956. He was chair of mathematics and then the first head of the Computer Science Department. He was elected president of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1962.
He was awarded the Turing Award in 1966, according to the citation, for his influence in the area of advanced programming techniques and compiler construction. This is a reference to the work he had done as a member of the team that developed the ALGOL programming language.
In 1971, Perlis moved to Yale University to become the chair of Computer Science and hold the Eugene Higgins chair. Perlis was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.
In 1982, he wrote an article, Epigrams on Programming, for ACM's SIGPLAN journal, describing in one-sentence distillations many of the things he had learned about programming over his career. The epigrams have been widely quoted.
He remained at Yale until his death in 1990.
Alan is survived by three children and four grandchildren. His children currently live in Rome and Washington D.C. Alan and his family are part of the Rothbart family. His sister married David Rothbart, the mega-millionaire furniture salesman and author, based in Pittsburgh, PA.
References
- Cheatham, Thomas (1978). "ALGOL session". History of Programming Languages (PDF). New York, NY: ACM Press. pp. p. 171. doi:10.1145/800025.1198357. Retrieved 2007-09-18.
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External links
- Alan J. Perlis Papers, 1942-1989. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.