Biography
Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920 – 19 October 2004) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the programming language APL . He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 "for his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows as APL; for his contributions to the implementation of interactive systems, to educational uses of APL, and to programming language theory and practice". [ 1 ] Ken Iverson was born on 17 December 1920 near Camrose , a town in central Alberta , Canada. [ 2 ] His parents were farmers who came to Alberta from North Dakota ; his ancestors came from Trondheim , Norway . [ 3 ] During World War II , he served first in the Canadian Army and then in the Royal Canadian Air Force . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He received a B.A. degree from Queen's University and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University . In his career, he worked for Harvard , IBM , I. P. Sharp Associates , and Jsoftware Inc. (née Iverson Software Inc.). Fields: Computer science Education: Queen's University BA Harvard University MS PhD Award Citation: IBM Fellow Harry H. Goode Memorial Award Turing Award Computer Pioneer Award
About the Turing Award
The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and is colloquially known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing."
Quick Facts
- Award: ACM A.M. Turing Award
- Added: 2026-02-07
- Source: Wikipedia
- Prize: $1,000,000 (USD)
- Presented by: ACM
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Notable Winners
- Donald Knuth (1974)
- Tim Berners-Lee (2016)
- Geoffrey Hinton (2018)
- Yoshua Bengio (2018)
- Yann LeCun (2018)