Dennis Allison
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Computer Science Mathematics
Dennis Allison's Degrees
- PhD Computer Science Stanford University
- Masters Computer Science Stanford University
- Bachelors Mathematics Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dennis Allison is a lecturer at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1976. Allison was a founding member of the People's Computer Company. Allison in 1975 wrote a specification for a microcomputer interpreter for the BASIC programming language which became known as Tiny Basic. Allison was urged to create the standard by Bob Albrecht of the Homebrew Computer Club who had seen BASIC on minicomputers and felt it would be the perfect match for new machines like the MITS Altair 8800, which had been released in January 1975. This design did not support text strings or floating point arithmetic, thus only using integer arithmetic. The goal was for the program to fit in 2 to 3 kilobytes of memory.
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