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Alan Perlis was born on 1 April, 1922 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., is an American computer scientist (1922–1990). Discover Alan Perlis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 1 April, 1922
Birthday 1 April
Birthplace Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date of death 7 February, 1990
Died Place New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1922

Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) was an American computer scientist and professor at Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University.

He is best known for his pioneering work in programming languages and was the first recipient of the Turing Award.

Perlis was born to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1939

He graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1939.

1943

In 1943, he received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (later renamed Carnegie Mellon University).

During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army, where he became interested in mathematics.

1949

He then earned both a master's degree (1949) and a Ph.D. (1950) in mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

His doctoral dissertation was titled "On Integral Equations, Their Solution by Iteration and Analytic Continuation".

1952

In 1952, he participated in Project Whirlwind.

1956

He joined the faculty at Purdue University and in 1956, moved to the Carnegie Institute of Technology.

He was chair of mathematics and then the first head of the computer science department.

This is a reference to the work he had done on Internal Translator in 1956 (described by Donald Knuth as the first successful compiler), and as a member of the team that developed the programming language ALGOL.

1962

In 1962, he was elected president of the Association for Computing Machinery.

1966

He was awarded the inaugural Turing Award in 1966, according to the citation, "for his influence in the area of advanced programming techniques and compiler construction."

1971

In 1971, Perlis moved to Yale University to take the chair of computer science and hold the Eugene Higgins chair.

1977

In 1977, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

1982

In 1982, he wrote an article, "Epigrams on Programming", for the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) SIGPLAN journal, describing in one-sentence distillations many of the things he had learned about programming over his career.

The epigrams have been widely quoted.

1990

He remained at Yale until his death in 1990.

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