• DocumentCode
    750878
  • Title

    Biographies

  • Author

    Haigh, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Editor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  • Volume
    27
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    93
  • Lastpage
    96
  • Abstract
    Kenneth Iverson, whose dissatisfaction with conventional mathematical notation as a graduate student led to the development of the APL and J languages, died in Toronto, Ontario on 19 October 2004 in his 84th year. This article reviews his early education, his graduate work at Harvard, and his careers with IBM in the United States and I. P. Sharp in Canada, and his retirement when he developed J, which he considered a modern dialect of APL.
  • Keywords
    APL; J; Kenneth Iverson; Programming languages; array languages; Biographies; Computer displays; Computer languages; Interactive systems; Keyboards; Mathematics; Microcomputers; Monitoring; Prototypes; Time sharing computer systems; APL; J; Kenneth Iverson; Programming languages; array languages;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2005.55
  • Filename
    1549802
    • Link To Document
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