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Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 3 December 1924
- Died
- 17 March 2007
- Conflict
- World War II
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Place of death
- Ashland
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Backus
- Field of work
- computer science, informatics
- Occupation
- mathematician, computer scientist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- IBM Fellow, Turing Award, Charles Stark Draper Prize, Harold Pender Award, National Medal of Science, Computer History Museum Fellow, Programming Languages Achievement Award, W. Wallace McDowell Award, IRI Achievement Award, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctorate of the Henri Poincaré University
- archives at
- Computer History Museum
- birth name
- John Warner Backus
- different from
- John Backus
- educated at
- Columbia University, University of Virginia, The Hill School
- employer
- IBM, United States Army
- Erdős number
- 5
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- military branch
- United States Army
- name in native language
- John Warner Backus
- notable work
- Speedcoding, Fortran, Backus–Naur form, FP
- place of burial
- San Francisco Columbarium
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