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class="infobox-data category">Netherlands</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/ALGOL_68" title="ALGOL 68">ALGOL 68</a>, <a href="/wiki/ABC_(programming_language)" title="ABC (programming language)">ABC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bird%E2%80%93Meertens_formalism" title="Bird–Meertens formalism">Bird–Meertens formalism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/International_Federation_for_Information_Processing" title="International Federation for Information Processing">IFIP</a> Silver Core (2007)<sup id="cite_ref-IFLP_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IFLP-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kestrel_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kestrel-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />IFIP Outstanding Service Award (2015)</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"><a href="/wiki/Centrum_Wiskunde_%26_Informatica" title="Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica">Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Utrecht_University" title="Utrecht University">Utrecht University</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kestrel_Institute" title="Kestrel Institute">Kestrel Institute</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Lambert Guillaume Louis Théodore Meertens</b> or <b>L.G.L.T. Meertens</b> (born 10 May 1944, in <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>) is a Dutch <a href="/wiki/Computer_scientist" title="Computer scientist">computer scientist</a> and professor.<sup id="cite_ref-Catalogus_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Catalogus-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2020<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lambert_Meertens&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, he is a researcher at the <a href="/wiki/Kestrel_Institute" title="Kestrel Institute">Kestrel Institute</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Nonprofit" class="mw-redirect" title="Nonprofit">nonprofit</a> computer science research center in <a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto" class="mw-redirect" title="Palo Alto">Palo Alto</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Stanford_Research_Park" title="Stanford Research Park">Stanford Research Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-kestrel_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kestrel-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_career">Life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lambert_Meertens&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As a student at the <a href="/wiki/Ignatius_Gymnasium" title="Ignatius Gymnasium">Ignatius Gymnasium</a> in Amsterdam, Meertens designed a <a href="/wiki/Computer" title="Computer">computer</a> with <a href="/wiki/Kees_Koster" class="mw-redirect" title="Kees Koster">Kees Koster</a>, a classmate.<sup id="cite_ref-Rooijendijk_2007_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rooijendijk_2007-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1960s, Meertens applied <a href="/wiki/Affix_grammar" title="Affix grammar">affix grammars</a> to the description and composition of music, and obtained a special prize from the jury at the 1968 <a href="/wiki/International_Federation_for_Information_Processing" title="International Federation for Information Processing">International Federation for Information Processing</a> (IFIP) Congress in <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a> for his computer-generated <a href="/wiki/String_quartet" title="String quartet">string quartet</a>, Quartet No. 1 in C major for 2 violins, viola and violoncello, based on the first non-<a href="/wiki/Context-free_grammar" title="Context-free grammar">context-free</a> <a href="/wiki/Affix_grammar" title="Affix grammar">affix grammar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kassler_1969_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kassler_1969-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Quartet_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quartet-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The string quartet was published in 1968, as <i>Mathematical Centre Report MR 96</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Meertens was one of the editors of the Revised <a href="/wiki/ALGOL_68" title="ALGOL 68">ALGOL 68</a> Report.<sup id="cite_ref-Wijngaarden_1976_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wijngaarden_1976-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the originator and one of the designers of the <a href="/wiki/Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming language</a> <a href="/wiki/ABC_(programming_language)" title="ABC (programming language)">ABC</a>, the incidental predecessor of <a href="/wiki/Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was chairman of the Dutch <a href="/wiki/Pacifist_Socialist_Party" title="Pacifist Socialist Party">Pacifist Socialist Party</a> (PSP) from 1975 until 1981. He was codesigner of the <a href="/wiki/Bird%E2%80%93Meertens_formalism" title="Bird–Meertens formalism">Bird–Meertens formalism</a>, along with <a href="/wiki/Richard_Bird_(computer_scientist)" title="Richard Bird (computer scientist)">Richard Bird</a>, who also <i>gifted</i> him the <a href="/wiki/Meertens_number" title="Meertens number">Meertens number</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bird_1990_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bird_1990-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He became involved with developing <a href="/wiki/International_standard" title="International standard">international standards</a> in programming and informatics, as a member of <a href="/wiki/IFIP_Working_Group_2.1" title="IFIP Working Group 2.1">IFIP Working Group 2.1</a> on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which <a href="/wiki/Specification_(technical_standard)" title="Specification (technical standard)">specified</a>, maintains, and supports the languages <a href="/wiki/ALGOL_60" title="ALGOL 60">ALGOL 60</a> and <a href="/wiki/ALGOL_68" title="ALGOL 68">ALGOL 68</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1999 to 2009, he was <a href="/wiki/Chairperson" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairperson">chairperson</a>. </p><p>His original work was at the Mathematical Centre (MC), now called <a href="/wiki/Centrum_Wiskunde_%26_Informatica" title="Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica">Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica</a> (CWI), in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He co-founded the Pagelet project along with Susan Uskudarli and <a href="/wiki/T._B._Dinesh" title="T. B. Dinesh">T. B. Dinesh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After having been Associate Professor of Computer Science at <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a> in 1982–83, he was part-time Professor of Applied Logic at <a href="/wiki/Delft_University_of_Technology" title="Delft University of Technology">Delft University of Technology</a>, the Netherlands, from 1984 to 1986 before becoming part-time Professor of Software Technology at <a href="/wiki/Utrecht_University" title="Utrecht University">Utrecht University</a>, the Netherlands, where he is now <a href="/wiki/Professor_emeritus" class="mw-redirect" title="Professor emeritus">professor emeritus</a>. As of 2021<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lambert_Meertens&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, he works as a researcher at the <a href="/wiki/Kestrel_Institute" title="Kestrel Institute">Kestrel Institute</a> in <a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto" class="mw-redirect" title="Palo Alto">Palo Alto</a>, California. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lambert_Meertens&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2007: <a href="/wiki/International_Federation_for_Information_Processing" title="International Federation for Information Processing">International Federation for Information Processing</a> (IFIP) Silver Core<sup id="cite_ref-IFLP_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IFLP-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kestrel_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kestrel-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2015: IFIP Outstanding Service Award</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lambert_Meertens&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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L. Peck">John E. L. Peck</a></li> <li>Perlis^</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Randell" title="Brian Randell">Brian Randell</a></li> <li>Rutishauser^</li> <li>Samelson^</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacob_T._Schwartz" title="Jacob T. Schwartz">Jacob T. Schwartz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Micha_Sharir" title="Micha Sharir">Micha Sharir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Turner_(computer_scientist)" title="David Turner (computer scientist)">David Turner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Vauquois" title="Bernard Vauquois">Bernard Vauquois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eiiti_Wada" title="Eiiti Wada">Eiiti Wada</a></li> <li>Wegstein^</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adriaan_van_Wijngaarden" title="Adriaan van Wijngaarden">Adriaan van Wijngaarden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Woodger" title="Mike Woodger">Mike Woodger</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Simula" title="Simula">Simula</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ole-Johan_Dahl" title="Ole-Johan Dahl">Ole-Johan Dahl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kristen_Nygaard" title="Kristen Nygaard">Kristen Nygaard</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/ALGOL_68" title="ALGOL 68">ALGOL 68</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Bauer^</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_G._Bond" title="Susan G. Bond">Susan G. Bond</a></li> <li>Bourne^</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Dewar" title="Robert Dewar">Robert Dewar</a></li> <li>Dijkstra^</li> <li><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Goos" class="extiw" title="de:Gerhard Goos">Gerhard Goos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Guy" title="Michael Guy">Michael Guy</a></li> <li>Hoare^</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornelis_H._A._Koster" title="Cornelis H. A. Koster">Cornelis H. A. Koster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Landin" title="Peter Landin">Peter Landin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_H._Lindsey" title="Charles H. Lindsey">Charles H. Lindsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_J._Mailloux" title="Barry J. Mailloux">Barry J. Mailloux</a></li> <li>McCarthy^</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Lambert Meertens</a></li> <li>Naur^</li> <li>Peck^</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willem_van_der_Poel" title="Willem van der Poel">Willem van der Poel</a></li> <li>Randell^</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_T._Ross" title="Douglas T. 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