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{{Short description|American computer scientist (1922β1990)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Alan J. Perlis | image = Alan Perlis.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|04|01}} | birth_place = [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date = {{Death date and age |1990|02|07 |1922|04|01}} | death_place = [[New Haven, Connecticut]], U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | other_names = | pronounce = <!--| residence = [[United States]]--> | fields = [[Computer science]] | workplaces = {{Unbulleted list |[[Association for Computing Machinery]] |[[Carnegie Mellon University]] |[[Purdue University]] |[[Yale University]]}} | education = {{ubl |[[Carnegie Mellon University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]]) |[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] ([[Master of Science|MS]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}} | doctoral_advisor = [[Philip Franklin]] | doctoral_students = {{Unbulleted list |[[Gary Lindstrom]] |[[Zohar Manna]] |[[David Parnas]] |[[John R. Levine]]}} | thesis_title = On Integral Equations, Their Solution by Iteration and Analytic Continuation | thesis_year = 1950 | known_for = {{Unbulleted list |[[Internal Translator|IT]] |[[ALGOL]] |[[APL (programming language)|APL]]}} | awards = {{Unbulleted list |[[Turing Award]], 1966 |[[Computer Pioneer Award]], 1985}} | footnotes = }} '''Alan Jay Perlis''' (April 1, 1922 β February 7, 1990) was an American [[computer scientist]] and professor at [[Purdue University]], [[Carnegie Mellon University]] and [[Yale University]]. He is best known for his pioneering work in [[programming language]]s and was the first recipient of the [[Turing Award]].<ref>Ulf Hashagen, Reinhard Keil-Slawik, Arthur L. Norberg (2002) ''History of Computing: Software Issues''. p.26</ref>
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