John 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.
John Warner Backus | Computer Science, Programming, …
Nov 29, 2024 · 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 …
John Backus - IBM
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
John Backus (1924 - 2007) - Biography - MacTutor History of …
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. John Backus's parents were Cecil Franklin Backus (1885-1966) and …
John Backus - A.M. Turing Award Laureate
While the theoretical foundations of functional programming had been established earlier with the lambda calculus as manifested in John McCarthy’s Lisp, Backus’ work made functional programming more accessible and so launched a renaissance in research on the topic. Backus retired from IBM in 1991.
John Backus - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented FORTRAN , the first widely used high-level programming language . He was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF).
Computer Pioneers - Backus
Feb 22, 1994 · John Warner Backus. Born December 3, 1924, Philadelphia, Pa.; leader of the IBM team that created the programming language Fortran; inventor of the metalanguage BNF, known variously as Backus-Normal or Backus-Naur Form; currently Proponent of improved methods of programming such as the functional approach.
John Backus - Columbia University
The caption reads: "John Backus, leader of the group which developed FORTRAN (1954-57), was an early SSEC programmer." After serving in the US Army in World War II, Backus received his BS in mathematics from Columbia's School of General Studies in 1949 and he also earned a Columbia Masters in mathematics in 1950.
How John Backus’ Fortran Beat the Machine Code ‘Priesthood’
Jul 3, 2022 · Backus remembers with a laugh that “Sometimes there wasn’t even a machine manual…” But to make his point, Backus contrasted it with the 1970s, a world where a programmer now had a superior who knew how to do a job — and how long it should take.
Inventor of Fortran: Who is John Backus? - knowwhois.com
John Backus, one of the pioneers of the computer world who developed the Fortran programming language and paved the way for the modern software world, has passed away. According to IBM, John Backus died in Ashland, Oregon, USA, on Saturday, March 17, 2007, at the age of 82.