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Perlis – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Alan J. Perlis" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_J._Perlis" title="Alan J. Perlis – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Alan J. Perlis" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis" title="Alan Perlis – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Alan Perlis" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis" title="Alan Perlis – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Alan Perlis" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%86_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3" title="آلن پرلیس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آلن پرلیس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis" title="Alan Perlis – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Alan Perlis" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis" title="Alan Perlis – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Alan Perlis" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%A8%EB%9F%B0_%ED%8E%84%EB%A6%AC%EC%8A%A4" title="앨런 펄리스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="앨런 펄리스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis" title="Alan Perlis – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Alan Perlis" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis" title="Alan Perlis – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Alan Perlis" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis" title="Alan Perlis – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Alan Perlis" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9F_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A1" title="אלן פרליס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אלן פרליס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C_%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98" title="ალან პერლისი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ალან პერლისი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a 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data-language-local-name="Mirandese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Mirandés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis" title="Alan Perlis – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Alan Perlis" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9" title="アラン・パリス – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="アラン・パリス" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis" title="Alan Perlis – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Alan Perlis" data-language-autonym="Polski" 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Perlis</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Alan_Perlis.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/59/Alan_Perlis.jpg/220px-Alan_Perlis.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="269" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Alan_Perlis.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="289" data-file-height="354" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1922-04-01</span>)</span>April 1, 1922<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania">Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">February 7, 1990<span style="display:none">(1990-02-07)</span> (aged 67)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven, Connecticut</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>B.S., <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">Chemistry</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University" title="Carnegie Mellon University">Carnegie Mellon</a> 1943</li><li>M.S., mathematics,<br /><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</a> 1949</li><li>Ph.D., mathematics,<br />MIT 1950</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Internal_Translator&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Internal Translator (page does not exist)">IT</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/ALGOL" title="ALGOL">ALGOL</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/APL_(programming_language)" title="APL (programming language)">APL</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Turing_Award" title="Turing Award">Turing Award</a>, 1966</li><li><a href="/wiki/Computer_Pioneer_Award" title="Computer Pioneer Award">Computer Pioneer Award</a>, 1985</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Computer_science" title="Computer science">Computer science</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Association_for_Computing_Machinery" title="Association for Computing Machinery">Association for Computing Machinery</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University" title="Carnegie Mellon University">Carnegie Mellon University</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Purdue_University" title="Purdue University">Purdue University</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i> On Integral Equations, Their Solution by Iteration and Analytic Continuation </i> <span style="font-size:97%;">(1950)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Doctoral_advisor" title="Doctoral advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Philip_Franklin" title="Philip Franklin">Philip Franklin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Doctoral students</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Lindstrom" title="Gary Lindstrom">Gary Lindstrom</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Zohar_Manna" title="Zohar Manna">Zohar Manna</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/David_Parnas" title="David Parnas">David Parnas</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/John_R._Levine" title="John R. Levine">John R. Levine</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Alan Jay Perlis</b> (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) was an American <a href="/wiki/Computer_scientist" title="Computer scientist">computer scientist</a> and professor at <a href="/wiki/Purdue_University" title="Purdue University">Purdue University</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University" title="Carnegie Mellon University">Carnegie Mellon University</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>. He is best known for his pioneering work in <a href="/wiki/Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming languages</a> and was the first recipient of the <a href="/wiki/Turing_Award" title="Turing Award">Turing Award</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Perlis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Perlis was born to a <a href="/wiki/Jewish" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish">Jewish</a> family in <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania">Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</a>. He graduated from <a href="/wiki/Taylor_Allderdice_High_School" title="Taylor Allderdice High School">Taylor Allderdice High School</a> in 1939.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1943, he received his <a href="/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">bachelor's degree</a> in <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a> from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (later renamed <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University" title="Carnegie Mellon University">Carnegie Mellon University</a>). </p><p>During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, he served in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army">U.S. Army</a>, where he became interested in mathematics. He then earned both a <a href="/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree">master's degree</a> (1949) and a <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">Ph.D.</a> (1950) in <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a> at <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> (MIT). His doctoral dissertation was titled "On <a href="/wiki/Integral_equation" title="Integral equation">Integral Equations</a>, Their Solution by Iteration and <a href="/wiki/Analytic_continuation" title="Analytic continuation">Analytic Continuation</a>". </p><p>In 1952, he participated in <a href="/wiki/Project_Whirlwind" class="mw-redirect" title="Project Whirlwind">Project Whirlwind</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He joined the faculty at <a href="/wiki/Purdue_University" title="Purdue University">Purdue University</a> and in 1956, moved to the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He was chair of mathematics and then the first head of the <a href="/wiki/Computer_science" title="Computer science">computer science</a> department. In 1962, he was elected president of the <a href="/wiki/Association_for_Computing_Machinery" title="Association for Computing Machinery">Association for Computing Machinery</a>. </p><p>He was awarded the inaugural Turing Award in 1966, according to the citation, "for his influence in the area of advanced programming techniques and <a href="/wiki/Compiler" title="Compiler">compiler</a> construction." This is a reference to the work he had done on <i>Internal Translator</i> in 1956 (described by <a href="/wiki/Donald_Knuth" title="Donald Knuth">Donald Knuth</a> as the first successful compiler), and as a member of the team that developed the programming language <a href="/wiki/ALGOL" title="ALGOL">ALGOL</a>. </p><p>In 1971, Perlis moved to <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> to take the chair of computer science and hold the Eugene Higgins chair. In 1977, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Engineering" title="National Academy of Engineering">National Academy of Engineering</a>. </p><p>In 1982, he wrote an article, "<a href="/wiki/Epigrams_on_Programming" title="Epigrams on Programming">Epigrams on Programming</a>", for the <a href="/wiki/Association_for_Computing_Machinery" title="Association for Computing Machinery">Association for Computing Machinery</a>'s (ACM) <a href="/wiki/SIGPLAN" title="SIGPLAN">SIGPLAN</a> journal, describing in one-sentence distillations many of the things he had learned about programming over his career. The <a href="/wiki/Epigram" title="Epigram">epigrams</a> have been widely quoted.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He remained at Yale until his death in 1990. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Perlis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Publications, a selection:<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>1957. <i>Internal Translator (IT): A Compiler for the 650</i>. With J. W. Smith and H. R. Van Zoeren.</li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFA._J._Perlis_and_C._Thornton1960" class="citation journal cs1">A. J. Perlis and C. Thornton (Apr 1960). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F367177.367202">"Symbol manipulation by threaded lists"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Communications_of_the_ACM" title="Communications of the ACM">Communications of the ACM</a></i>. <b>3</b> (4): 195–204. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F367177.367202">10.1145/367177.367202</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:18096517">18096517</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Communications+of+the+ACM&rft.atitle=Symbol+manipulation+by+threaded+lists&rft.volume=3&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=195-204&rft.date=1960-04&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1145%2F367177.367202&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A18096517%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.au=A.+J.+Perlis+and+C.+Thornton&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1145%252F367177.367202&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Perlis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>1965. <i>An introductory course in computer programming</i>. With Robert T. Braden.</li> <li>1970. <i>A view of programming languages</i>. With <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Galler" title="Bernard Galler">Bernard A. Galler</a></li> <li>1975. <i>Introduction to computer science</i></li> <li>1977. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis77.htm"><i>In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming</i></a></li> <li>1978. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis78.htm"><i>Almost Perfect Artifacts Improve only in Small Ways: APL is more French than English</i></a></li> <li>1981. <i>Software Metrics: An Analysis and Evaluation</i>. With Frederick Sayward and Mary Shaw</li> <li>1986. <i>FAC: A Functional APL Language</i>. With Tu Hai-Chen.</li></ul> <dl><dt>About Alan Perlis</dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDenning1990" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Peter_J._Denning" title="Peter J. Denning">Denning, Peter J.</a> (May 1990). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F78607.214943">"Alan J. Perlis—1922–1990: a founding father of computer science as a separate discipline"</a>. <i>Communications of the ACM</i>. <b>33</b> (5): 604–605. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F78607.214943">10.1145/78607.214943</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:22132301">22132301</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Communications+of+the+ACM&rft.atitle=Alan+J.+Perlis%E2%80%941922%E2%80%931990%3A+a+founding+father+of+computer+science+as+a+separate+discipline&rft.volume=33&rft.issue=5&rft.pages=604-605&rft.date=1990-05&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1145%2F78607.214943&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A22132301%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Denning&rft.aufirst=Peter+J.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1145%252F78607.214943&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Perlis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCheatham1978" class="citation book cs1">Cheatham, Thomas (1978). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofprogram0000hist/page/171">"ALGOL session"</a>. <i>History of Programming Languages</i>. 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Norberg (2002) <i>History of Computing: Software Issues</i>. p.26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/perlis_0132439.cfm">"A.M Turing Award Winners: Alan J. Perlis"</a>. <i>Association for Computing Machinery</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 21,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Association+for+Computing+Machinery&rft.atitle=A.M+Turing+Award+Winners%3A+Alan+J.+Perlis&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Famturing.acm.org%2Faward_winners%2Fperlis_0132439.cfm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Perlis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">National Academy of Engineering (1979) "Alan Jay Perlis" in: <i>Memorial tributes</i>. 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Perlis Papers, 1942–1989</a>. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Babbage_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Babbage Institute">Charles Babbage Institute</a>, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Perlis&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/34px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="34" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/51px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/68px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="355" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikiquote has quotations related to <i><b><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Search/Alan_Perlis" class="extiw" title="q:Special:Search/Alan Perlis">Alan Perlis</a></b></i>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://purl.umn.edu/107544">Oral history interview with Allen Newell</a> at <a href="/wiki/Charles_Babbage_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Babbage Institute">Charles Babbage Institute</a>, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 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Wilkinson</a> (1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)" title="John McCarthy (computer scientist)">John McCarthy</a> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra" title="Edsger W. Dijkstra">Edsger W. Dijkstra</a> (1972)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Bachman" title="Charles Bachman">Charles Bachman</a> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Knuth" title="Donald Knuth">Donald Knuth</a> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Allen_Newell" title="Allen Newell">Allen Newell</a>; <a href="/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon" title="Herbert A. Simon">Herbert A. Simon</a> (1975)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Michael_O._Rabin" title="Michael O. Rabin">Michael O. Rabin</a>; <a href="/wiki/Dana_Scott" title="Dana Scott">Dana Scott</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Backus" title="John Backus">John Backus</a> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_W._Floyd" title="Robert W. Floyd">Robert W. Floyd</a> (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson" title="Kenneth E. Iverson">Kenneth E. Iverson</a> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Hoare" title="Tony Hoare">Tony Hoare</a> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Edgar_F._Codd" title="Edgar F. Codd">Edgar F. Codd</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Cook" title="Stephen Cook">Stephen Cook</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ken_Thompson" title="Ken Thompson">Ken Thompson</a>; <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie" title="Dennis Ritchie">Dennis Ritchie</a> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth" title="Niklaus Wirth">Niklaus Wirth</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_M._Karp" title="Richard M. 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Corbató</a> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robin_Milner" title="Robin Milner">Robin Milner</a> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Butler_Lampson" title="Butler Lampson">Butler Lampson</a> (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Juris_Hartmanis" title="Juris Hartmanis">Juris Hartmanis</a>; <a href="/wiki/Richard_E._Stearns" title="Richard E. Stearns">Richard E. 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