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, High-level programminglanguage, Fortran programming language, Function-level programming
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language...
Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse

male, deceased (1995)
computer, deutsches museum, z3, civil engineer, algorithmic, algol…Programming language designer, programming language, High-level programminglanguage, high-level
Konrad Zuse was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the completion of the first functional program-controlled...