biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1924– )
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| biography:
| Mathematician and computer specialist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was the project leader of the group at International Business Machines (IBM) that developed FORTRAN (1953–7), the first high-level language in data processing. He also worked on the IBM 704 computer with Gene Amdahl during the 1950s, and worked on ALGOL 58 and 60. |
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