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Robert S. Barton

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Robert Stanley "Bob" Barton (February 13, 1925 – January 28, 2009) was recognized as the chief architect of the Burroughs B5000 and other computers such as the B1700, and a co-inventor of dataflow. [1]

59 relations: Adobe Systems, Alan C. Ashton, Alan Kay, Alan L. Davis, ALGOL, ALGOL 58, Beckman Coulter, Bui Tuong Phong, Burroughs B1700, Burroughs Corporation, Burroughs large systems, Burroughs MCP, Charles Babbage Institute, Computer Pioneer Award, Computer science, Control Data Corporation, Datatron, David C. Evans, Eckert–Mauchly Award, Edwin Catmull, Gouraud shading, Graphical user interface, Henri Gouraud (computer scientist), Hewlett-Packard, High-level programming language, HP 3000, HP calculators, IBM, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Irving Copi, Ivan Sutherland, James H. Clark, Jan Łukasiewicz, John Warnock, La Jolla, Lockheed Corporation, Macintosh, Mainframe computer, Marina del Rey, California, Mathematics, Microsoft Windows, New Britain, Connecticut, Pasadena, California, Phong shading, Pixar, Polish notation, Portland, Oregon, Reverse Polish notation, Shell Oil Company, Silicon Graphics, ..., Smalltalk, Stack machine, The Hillsboro Argus, Thomas Stockham, Unisys, University of Iowa, University of Utah, W. Wallace McDowell Award, WordPerfect. Expand index (9 more) »

Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated, commonly known as Adobe, is an American multinational computer software company.

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Alan C. Ashton

Alan C. Ashton (born May 7, 1942) is the co-founder of WordPerfect Corporation and a former professor at Brigham Young University.

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Alan Kay

Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940 published by the Association for Computing Machinery 2012) is an American computer scientist.

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Alan L. Davis

Alan "Al" Lynn Davis is an American computer scientist and researcher, a professor of computer science at the University of Utah, and served as the associate director of the University of Utah School of Computing.

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ALGOL

ALGOL (short for "Algorithmic Language") is a family of imperative computer programming languages, originally developed in the mid-1950s, which greatly influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM in textbooks and academic sources for more than thirty years.

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ALGOL 58

ALGOL 58, originally known as IAL, is one of the family of ALGOL computer programming languages.

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Beckman Coulter

Beckman Coulter Inc., is an American company that makes biomedical laboratory instruments.

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Bui Tuong Phong

Bùi Tường Phong (December 14, 1942 – July 1975) was a Vietnamese-born French-American computer graphics researcher and pioneer.

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Burroughs B1700

The Burroughs B1000 Series was a series of mainframe computers, built by the Burroughs Corporation, and originally introduced in the 1970s with continued software development until 1987.

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Burroughs Corporation

The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment.

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Burroughs large systems

In the 1970s, Burroughs Corporation was organized into three divisions with very different product line architectures for high-end, mid-range, and entry-level business computer systems.

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Burroughs MCP

The MCP (Master Control Program) is the proprietary operating system of the Burroughs small, medium and large systems, including the Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems.

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Charles Babbage Institute

The Charles Babbage Institute is a research center at the University of Minnesota specializing in the history of information technology, particularly the history of digital computing, programming/software, and computer networking since 1935.

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Computer Pioneer Award

The Computer Pioneer Award was established in 1981 by the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society to recognize and honor the vision of those people whose efforts resulted in the creation and continued vitality of the computer industry.

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Computer science

Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations.

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Control Data Corporation

Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer firm.

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Datatron

The Datatron is an obsolete family of decimal vacuum tube computers developed by ElectroData Corporation and first shipped in 1954.

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David C. Evans

David Cannon Evans (February 24, 1924 – October 3, 1998) was the founder of the computer science department at the University of Utah and co-founder (with Ivan Sutherland) of Evans & Sutherland, a computer firm which is known as a pioneer in the domain of computer-generated imagery.

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Eckert–Mauchly Award

The Eckert–Mauchly Award recognizes contributions to digital systems and computer architecture.

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Edwin Catmull

Edwin Earl Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist and current president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios.

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Gouraud shading

Gouraud shading, named after Henri Gouraud, is an interpolation method used in computer graphics to produce continuous shading of surfaces represented by polygon meshes.

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Graphical user interface

The graphical user interface (GUI), is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation.

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Henri Gouraud (computer scientist)

Henri Gouraud (born 1944) is a French computer scientist.

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP) or shortened to Hewlett-Packard was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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High-level programming language

In computer science, a high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer.

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HP 3000

The HP 3000 series is a family of minicomputers released by Hewlett-Packard in 1972.

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HP calculators

HP calculators are various calculators manufactured by the Hewlett-Packard company over the years.

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IBM

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a professional association with its corporate office in New York City and its operations center in Piscataway, New Jersey.

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Irving Copi

Irving Marmer Copi (né Copilovich; July 28, 1917, Duluth, Minnesota – August 19, 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii) was an American philosopher, logician, and university textbook author.

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Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as the "father of computer graphics." His early work in computer graphics as well as his teaching with David C. Evans in that subject at the University of Utah in the 1970s was pioneering in the field.

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James H. Clark

James Henry Clark (born March 23, 1944) is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist.

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Jan Łukasiewicz

Jan Łukasiewicz (21 December 1878 – 13 February 1956) was a Polish logician and philosopher born in Lwów, a city in the Galician kingdom of Austria-Hungary.

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John Warnock

John Edward Warnock (born October 6, 1940) is an American computer scientist and businessman best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company.

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La Jolla

La Jolla is a hilly seaside and affluent community within the city of San Diego, California, United States occupying 7 miles (11 km) of curving coastline along the Pacific Ocean within the northern city limits.

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Lockheed Corporation

The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company.

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Macintosh

The Macintosh (pronounced as; branded as Mac since 1998) is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Inc. since January 1984.

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Mainframe computer

Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications; bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning; and transaction processing.

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Marina del Rey, California

Marina del Rey is an unincorporated seaside community and census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Mathematics

Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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New Britain, Connecticut

New Britain is a city in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.

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Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of Downtown Los Angeles.

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Phong shading

Phong shading refers to an interpolation technique for surface shading in 3D computer graphics.

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Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, commonly referred to as Pixar, is an American computer animation movie studio based in Emeryville, California that is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Polish notation

Polish notation (PN), also known as normal Polish notation (NPN), Łukasiewicz notation, Warsaw notation, Polish prefix notation or simply prefix notation, is a mathematical notation in which operators precede their operands, in contrast to reverse Polish notation (RPN) in which operators follow their operands.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Reverse Polish notation

Reverse Polish notation (RPN), also known as Polish postfix notation or simply postfix notation, is a mathematical notation in which operators follow their operands, in contrast to Polish notation (PN), in which operators precede their operands.

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Shell Oil Company

Shell Oil Company is the United States-based wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, transnational corporation "oil major" of Anglo-Dutch origins, which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world.

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Silicon Graphics

Silicon Graphics, Inc. (later rebranded SGI, historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was an American high-performance computing manufacturer, producing computer hardware and software.

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Smalltalk

Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming language.

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Stack machine

In computer science, computer engineering and programming language implementations, a stack machine is a type of computer.

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The Hillsboro Argus

The Hillsboro Argus was a twice-weekly newspaper in the city of Hillsboro, Oregon, from 1894 to 2017, known as the Washington County Argus for its final year.

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Thomas Stockham

Thomas Greenway Stockham (December 22, 1933 – January 6, 2004) was an American scientist who developed one of the first practical digital audio recording systems, and pioneered techniques for digital audio recording and processing as well.

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Unisys

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University of Iowa

The University of Iowa (also known as the UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a flagship public research university in Iowa City, Iowa.

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University of Utah

The University of Utah (also referred to as the U, U of U, or Utah) is a public coeducational space-grant research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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W. Wallace McDowell Award

The W. Wallace McDowell Award is awarded by the IEEE Computer Society for outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other similar innovative contributions that fall within the scope of Computer Society interest.

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WordPerfect

WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application owned by Corel with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms.

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