Alan Perlis

Alan J. Perlis
Born	(1922-04-01)April 1, 1922 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	February 7, 1990(1990-02-07) (aged 67) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater	B.S., Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon 1943 M.S., mathematics, MIT 1949 Ph.D., mathematics, MIT 1950
Known for	IT ALGOL APL
Awards	Turing Award, 1966 Computer Pioneer Award, 1985
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Association for Computing Machinery Carnegie Mellon University Purdue University Yale University
Thesis	On Integral Equations, Their Solution by Iteration and Analytic Continuation  (1950)
Doctoral advisor	Philip Franklin
Doctoral students	Gary Lindstrom Zohar Manna David Parnas John R. Levine

Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) was an American computer scientist and professor at Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University. He is best known for his pioneering work in programming languages and was the first recipient of the Turing Award.^[1]