1924 - 2007
John Backus American Mathematician
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Details
| First Name |
John
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| Last Name |
Backus
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| Birthday |
3rd December, 1924
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| Birthplace |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| Died |
17th March, 2007
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| Place of Death |
Ashland, Oregon
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| Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation |
Mathematician
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John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define formal language syntax. He later did research into the function-level programming paradigm, presenting his findings in his influential 1977 Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?"
