John Backus

John Backus

male, deceased (2007) (San Francisco, California, United States)
Turing Award laureate, programming language creator, National Medal of Science recipient, IBM 704, Backus-Naur form, National Medal of Science…John Warner Backus
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language...
Peter Naur

Peter Naur

male, 81 years old
backus, PhD, Doctor of Philosophy, Copenhagen University, Technical University of Denmark, Niels Bohr Institute…Backus Normal Form, Backus-Naur form
Peter Naur (born October 25, 1928) is a Danish pioneer in computer science and Turing award winner. His last name is the N in the BNF notation...