Kenneth Eugene Iverson

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(b.) December 17, 1920 — (d.) October 19, 2004
Description

Developer of the APL programming language in 1962, Iverson was a Canadian computer scientist noted for his contributions to mathematical notation and programming language theory. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979. The Iverson Award for contributions to APL was named in his honor.

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Noted For
Development of APL programming language
Category
Software, Mathematics
Affiliation
IBM
Gender
Male

Citations:

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