John Backus
American computer scientist
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John Warner Backus 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, a widely used notation to define... Wikipedia
Born: December 3, 1924, United States
Died: March 17, 2007 (age 82 years), Ashland, OR
Education: Columbia University (1946–1949), University of Virginia (1942–1943), The Hill School (1942), and more
Children: 2
Parents: Cecil Franklin Backus
Known for: Speedcoding; FORTRAN; ALGOL; Backus–Naur form; Function-level programming
Awards: National Medal of Science (1975), Turing Award (1977), and Charles Stark Draper Prize (1993)