John Backus
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 16 years ago |
| Date of birth | December 3,1924 |
| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
| Born | Philadelphia |
| Pennsylvania | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | March 17,2007 |
| Died | Ashland |
| Oregon | |
| United States | |
| Parents | Cecil Franklin Backus |
| Children | Paula Backus |
| Karen Backus | |
| Job | Mathematician |
| Computer scientist | |
| Education | The Hill School |
| University of Virginia | |
| University of Pittsburgh | |
| Columbia University | |
| Books | The Acoustical Foundations of Music |
| Questions and Problems for The Acoustical Foundations of Music | |
| Awards | Turing Award |
| Charles Stark Draper Prize | |
| National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science | |
| National Medal of Science | |
| Spous | Marjorie Jamison ; Barbara Una (m. 1968; died 2004) |
| Known for | Speedcoding; FORTRAN; ALGOL; Backus–Naur form; Function-level programming |
| Nationality | American |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 557154 |
John Backus Life story
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form, a widely used notation to define formal language syntax.
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