| LC control no. | n 92106806 |
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| Personal name heading | Backus, John W., 1924-2007 |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Va. Poly. Inst. and St. Univ. Libr. for International Business Machine Corporation. Twenty-five years of FORTRAN, 1957-1982 (John Backus; member of original FORTRAN development team) Phone call to IBM archives, 10-30-92 (John W. Backus; b. 12-3-24; mathematician and programmer) New York times WWW site, Mar. 20, 2007 (John W. Backus; d. Saturday [Mar. 17, 2007], Ashland, Or., aged 82; assembled and led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, which helped open the door to modern computing) |
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