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…Programming language designer, programming language, Fortran, High-level programming language, Fortranprogramminglanguage
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language...