John Backus

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American computer scientist (1924-2007)

United States AcademicsLived 1924 to 2007 · aged 82

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Peak1980s

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Awards 11

2004Programming Languages Achievement Award

1997Computer History Museum Fellow

1993Charles Stark Draper Prize

1989honorary doctorate of the Henri Poincaré University

1985Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1984IRI Achievement Award

1983Harold Pender Award

1977Turing Award

1975National Medal of Science

1967W. Wallace McDowell Award

1963IBM Fellow

Connected to John 6

Gene AmdahlAlso won IBM Fellow

Dean KamenAlso won IRI Achievement Award

Barbara LiskovAlso won Programming Languages Achievement Award

Maurice WilkesAlso won W. Wallace McDowell Award

John B. GoodenoughAlso won Charles Stark Draper Prize

Ole-Johan DahlAlso won Turing Award

About this person

John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define syntaxes of formal languages. He also contributed to the design of ALGOL, and later researched the function-level programming paradigm, presenting his findings in his influential 1977 Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?"

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