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30 de abr. de 2024 · John Warner Backus (born Dec. 3, 1924, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died March 17, 2007, Ashland, Ore.) was an American computer scientist and mathematician who led the team that designed FORTRAN (formula translation), the first important algorithmic language for computers.
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25 de abr. de 2024 · FORTRAN, computer programming language created in 1957 by John Backus that shortened the process of programming and made computer programming more accessible. FORTRAN enabled the rapid writing of computer programs that ran nearly as efficiently as programs that had been laboriously hand coded in machine language.
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Há 2 dias · In 1977, the computer scientist John Backus delivered an influential lecture titled “Can Programming Be Liberated From the Von Neumann Style?” In it, he argued that existing languages were ...
6 de mai. de 2024 · The term ‘Von Neumann bottleneck’ was coined by John Backus (perhaps now best known for Backus-Naur Format, but who was responsible for so much more) in his 1977 Turing Lecture – and it referred not to the sharing of the same buses for instruction and data access, but to the fact that every item of data that needs to be changed, or even just moved, must pass through the central processor.
19 de abr. de 2024 · 1954: Th e Formula Translation (FORTRAN) program ming language is developed by John Backus and a team of programmers at IBM. Additionally, IBM creates the 650, which was the first mass-produced computer, selling 450 in just one year. 1958: Jack Kirby and Robert Noyce invented the integrated circuit, which is what we now call the ...
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Há 6 dias · IBM computer scientist John Backus, another Turing Award winner, used some of Chomsky's concepts to help him develop FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level computer programming language. Chomsky's theory of generative grammar has also influenced work in music theory and analysis , such as Fred Lerdahl 's and Ray Jackendoff 's ...
8 de mai. de 2024 · According to John Backus, before his team developed FORTRAN, a computer programmer "had to employ every trick that he could think of to make the program run fast enough to justify the rather ...
