History of Programming Languages Conference records, 1959, 1972-1983 (1976-1982).

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History of Programming Languages Conference records, 1959, 1972-1983 (1976-1982).

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Correspondence, reports, draft presentations, newspaper clippings, notes, memoranda, National Science Foundation grant records, publicity materials, and mailing lists relating to the planning and organization of the conference. Also includes conference proceedings in the form of black-and-white video cassettes, reel-to-reel and cassette audio recordings, black-and-white photographs, slides, transcripts of presentations, preprints of papers, and book drafts. Correspondents include Herbert R. J. Grosch, John A. N. Lee, Jean E. Sammet, and Richard L. Wexelblat.

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History of Programming Languages Conference 1978 Los Angeles, Calif.

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The History of Programming Languages Conference was organized by the Special Interest Group in Programming Languages of the Association for Computing Machinery, and took place in Los Angeles on June 1-3, 1978. The purpose of the conference was to provide a written record for programming languages that were created by 1967, remained in use by 1977, and influence the field of computing. Speakers included those who had played a major part in the development and use of ALGOL, APL, APT, BASIC, COBOL,...

Sammet, Jean E., 1928-

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Sammet was a leading figure in the development of computer programming languages. She began her career at Sperry Gyroscope Company (1955-1958) and moved to Sylvania Electric Products in 1958 where she participated in programming development for the MOBIDIC Computer. In 1961 she joined IBM Corporation to manage their Boston Programming Center. There she conducted advanced development work in programming and produced the first Formula Manipulation Compiler. Between 1968 and 1978 Samme...

Lee, John A.N.

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John A. N. Lee, a professor of computer science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, was born in Coventry, England. After earning his doctoral degree at the University of Nottingham, Lee worked as a civil engineer with Freeman, Fox & Partners, where he served on teams which designed the Medway Bridge near London, the Firth of Forth Road Bridge, and Australia's Sydney Opera House. In 1959, Lee joined the faculty of Queens University (Kingston, Ontario), where h...

Grosch, Herbert R. J.

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Wexelblat, Richard L.

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ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages.

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