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March 17, 2007 (82 years old)
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John Backus
John Warner Backus is an American computer scientist. He led the team to invent and implement FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language and inventor of the Backus-Naur form, a notation widely used to define the syntax of the language. He then studied the Functional Programming Model, presenting his findings in his influential 1977 Turing Prize lecture "Can Programming Be Free from the Von Neumann Style." The IEEE awarded Backus the W. W. McDowell Prize in 1967 for the development of FORTRAN. He was awarded the National Science Medal in 1975 and the Turing Prize in 1977 "for his profound, influential and enduring contributions to the design of high-level practical programming systems, particularly in the field of communication. Through his work on FORTRAN and the publication of formal processes for the specification of programming languages. ”He retired in 1991 and died at his home in Ashland, Oregon on March 17, 2007.
BornJohn Warner Backus, December 3, 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DiedMarch 17, 2007, Ashland, Oregon
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsIBM
Alma materUniversity of Virginia, University of Pittsburgh, Columbia University (B.S. 1949, M.S. 1950)
Known forSpeedcoding, FORTRAN, ALGOL, Backus–Naur form, Function-level programming
Notable awardsNational Medal of Science (1975), Turing Award (1977), Charles Stark Draper Prize (1993)

About John Backus

Computer Scientist John Backus was born in Pennsylvania, United States on December 3, 1924. He dies at the age of 82, on March 17, 2007.

He earned the National Medal of Science in 1975 for his contributions to the development of Fortran, one of the first computer programming languages. He also contributed to the field of function-level programming, which is a new approach to programming language design.

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John Backus before becoming famous

John Backus was born in the Zodiac sign Sagittarius (The Centaur/Archer), and 1924 is also the year of Rat (鼠) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He attended a prestigious private high school in Pennsylvania, where he was known for breaking the rules, and then failed to graduate from the University of Virginia.

Achievement of John Backus

His Fortran was the first high-level computer language to adopt a more human-like syntax, making it intelligible and widely used.

John Backus's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, to a wealthy stockbroker father.

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To develop the human-machine interaction, he built on the work of Engineer Konrad Kruze, who laid the groundwork for the first programming language.

Konrad Zuse (1910 - 1995) (Engineer)
Konrad Zuse (1910 - 1995)

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