Kenneth E. Iverson

Kenneth E. Iverson
Kenneth E. Iverson
Born	17 December 1920; Camrose, Alberta, Canada
Died	19 October 2004 (aged 83); Toronto, Canada
Alma mater	Queen's University; Harvard University;
Known for	Programming 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.;
Thesis	Machine 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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