Notation as a Tool of
Kenneth E. Iverson · 1979
mittee cited Iverson for his pioneering etTbr ~ m programming hmguages and mathematical notation restJltmg in what @e computing field now knows as APL Iverson's coniributioas ~o the implementation of imeractive syaems, to O~e educationai uses of-~PL, and to programming language ~heory and practice were also aoCed. Born and raised in Canada. Iverson re~eived his doctorate in t954 from Harvard Universi{y There he sew'ed as Assistant Pro~?ssor of Applied Mathematics t%om I955-1960 ~ He then joined Internationa { Business Ma-chines Corp. and in 1970 'was named an IBM Fellow in honor of his comribufioa ~o ~he devebpmer~t of APL. Dr. Iverson is presently wi @ t.P. Sharp Associates in Toronto. He has punished rmmerous articles on programming l.anguages and has written four bc~ks abcm ~ programming and mathematics: A Programming Lang~age ( t %2L E&menm(v f%nc~ions (1966), AIgebra:,4 n A [gor#hmic Krea~mem ( t 97:2), and G~e;mem'a(V A e~alvsis { 1976).