Kenneth E. Iverson

Kenneth E. Iverson
Iverson in 1989
Born(1920-12-17)17 December 1920
Camrose, Alberta, Canada
Died19 October 2004(2004-10-19) (aged 83)
Toronto, Canada
Education
  • Queen's University (BA)
  • Harvard University (MS, PhD)
Known forProgramming languages: APL, J
Awards
  • IBM Fellow
  • Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
  • Turing Award
  • Computer Pioneer Award
Scientific career
Fields
  • Mathematics
  • Computer science
Institutions
  • Harvard University
  • IBM
  • I. P. Sharp Associates
  • Jsoftware Inc.
ThesisMachine Solutions of Linear Differential Equations – Applications to a Dynamic Economic Model (1954)
Doctoral advisor
  • Howard Aiken
  • Wassily Leontief

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".

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