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Date of birth | 3 December 1924 Philadelphia John Warner Backus | ||||
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Date of death | 17 March 2007 Ashland | ||||
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English: John Warner Backus (1924–2007) was an American computer scientist.
Media in category "John Backus"
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"Year of Programming" Symposium, Austin, Texas 1988 (6423344543).jpg 3,800 × 3,073; 1.62 MB
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Categories:
- Backus (surname)
- John (given name)
- Warner (given name)
- 1924 births
- 2007 deaths
- IBM Fellows
- Laureates of the Turing Award
- Draper Prize winners
- Recipients of the National Medal of Science
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Male computer scientists from the United States
- Members of the National Academy of Sciences
- Male mathematicians from the United States
- Computer pioneers
- Births in Philadelphia
- Programming language designers
- Programming language researchers
- Alumni of Columbia University
- Alumni of the University of Virginia