Alan Perlis

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computer scientist educator human university teacher

Alan Perlis was an American computer scientist and educator renowned for his pioneering work in programming languages and for being the first recipient of the Turing Award.

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Alan J. Perlis	2

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	computer scientist ⓘ educator ⓘ human ⓘ university teacher ⓘ
academicDegree	Bachelor's degree in chemistry ⓘ PhD in mathematics ⓘ
awardReceived	ACM Distinguished Service Award ⓘ Turing Award ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1922-04-01 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1990-02-07 ⓘ
educatedAt	CMU ⓘ surface form: Carnegie Institute of Technology Yale University ⓘ
employer	CMU ⓘ surface form: Carnegie Institute of Technology CMU ⓘ surface form: Carnegie Mellon University Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ surface form: Institute for Advanced Study (as visiting researcher) Purdue University ⓘ Yale University ⓘ
familyName	Perlis ⓘ
fieldOfWork	computer science ⓘ numerical analysis ⓘ programming languages ⓘ
givenName	Alan ⓘ
influenced	development of academic computer science programs in the United States ⓘ
influencedBy	early numerical analysis and computing research of the 1940s and 1950s ⓘ
knownFor	being the first recipient of the Turing Award ⓘ influential teaching in computer science ⓘ work on programming language design ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ National Academy of Engineering ⓘ
notableAward	Turing Award ⓘ
notableStudent	Nico Habermann ⓘ
notableWork	Epigrams on Programming ⓘ contributions to ALGOL ⓘ contributions to compiler construction ⓘ pioneering work in programming languages ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ surface form: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
placeOfDeath	New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ surface form: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
positionHeld	chair of the Computer Science Department at Yale University ⓘ first chair of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University ⓘ professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University ⓘ professor of computer science at Yale University ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
workLocation	New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ surface form: New Haven, Connecticut, United States Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ surface form: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States West Lafayette, Indiana, United States ⓘ

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Epigrams on Programming → author → Alan Perlis ⓘ

Epigrams on Programming → creator → Alan Perlis ⓘ

Zohar Manna → doctoralAdvisor → Alan Perlis ⓘ

this entity surface form: Alan J. Perlis

Turing Award → hasNotableRecipient → Alan Perlis ⓘ

ALGOL 60 → wasDesignedBy → Alan Perlis ⓘ

this entity surface form: Alan J. Perlis