Kenneth E. Iverson

1920 - 2004

country of citizenship: Canada

educated at: Harvard University, Queen's University, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

occupation: mathematician, computer scientist

award received: IBM Fellow, Turing Award, Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, Computer Pioneer Award, National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920 – 19 October 2004) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the programming language APL. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 "for his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows as APL; for his contributions to the implementation of interactive systems, to educational uses of APL, and to programming language theory and practice". Source: Wikipedia (en)