Kenneth E. Iverson is read about 44 times a day, in 32 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?Kenneth Eugene Iverson was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the programming language APL.
A life in dates
Also in Deutsch
Photos 7
![Simplex algorithm in Iverson notation[13][14]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/DFSPsimplex.png/330px-DFSPsimplex.png)
![APL expression for the depth of parentheses nesting[37][38]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/APLparen.png/330px-APLparen.png)
![APL rank operator ⍤ [77][78]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/APLrank.png/330px-APLrank.png)
![Dyalog APL[110] equivalent computation](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/APLbinomial.png/330px-APLbinomial.png)
Awards
About this person
Kenneth Eugene Iverson 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".
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.