San Francisco / Seattle / New York City / Paris / /
Company
IBM / APL / FP Systems / eqO / I I. Functional Programming Systems / Programs John Backus IBM Research Laboratory / Def / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
United States / Denmark / /
Currency
USD / cent / /
IndustryTerm
state transition systems / history-sensitive computing systems / modem car / inner product / elegant new tools / elegant tools / applicative state transition systems / machinery / level programming systems / functional programming systems / classical applicative systems / earliest product / outer product / applicative systems / applicative computing systems / applicative programming systems / /
Organization
Awards Committee / Department of Defense / United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization / Association for Computing Machinery / /
Person
Jean E. Sammet / Peter Naur / Kenneth Iverson / John Backus / Dana Scott / /
Position
Author / machine designer / Chairman / designer / San Jose General / head / great mathematician for their complexity / programmer / /
197 7 ACM Turing Award Lecture The 1977 A C M Turing Award was presented to John Backus at the A C M Annual Conference in Seattle, October 17. In introducing the recipient, Jean E. Sammet, Chairman of the Awards Committ