name: Alan Jay Perlis
image: img/alan-perlis.jpg
period: 1950s
US mathematician and computer scientists, pioneer of CS education.
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MSc & PhD from MIT in 1950
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professor at Purdue University (1950s), Carnegie (1960s) and Yale University (from 1970s)
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president of ACM in 1962
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editor-in-chief of CACM (1958-62)
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first recipient of the Turing Award in 1966
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participated in Project Whirlwind at MIT
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member of the team that developed ALGOL
- "Computer Science"
- "Turing tarpit" ("in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy")
- Logic Theorist - earliest AI program that proved 38 of the first 52 theorems from "Principia Mathematica" and was presented at the Dartmouth conference of 1956
- "major problem" in CS is bridging the gap between neuroscience and psychology
- Herbert Simon and Allen Newell, 1975 Turing Award winners for contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition
- Epigrams on Programming 1982 ACM paper, early programming lore
- Alan J. Perlis—1922–1990: a founding father of computer science as a separate discipline 1990 CACM paper
- 1981 talk on "Computing in the Fifties"