John Backus | Academic Influence

Why Is John Backus Influential?

According to Wikipedia, John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form , a widely used notation to define formal language syntax. He later did research into the function-level programming paradigm, presenting his findings in his influential 1977 Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?"

John Backus's Published Works

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Published Papers

Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?: a functional style and its algebra of programs (2417)
Revised report on the algorithm language ALGOL 60 (811)
Report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60 (490)
The syntax and semantics of the proposed international algebraic language of the Zurich ACM-GAMM Conference (399)
Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style (280)
The FORTRAN automatic coding system (148)
The History of FORTRAN I, II and III (136)
Report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60 (103)
The History of FORTRAN I, II and III (81)
The Algebra of Functional Programs: Function Level Reasoning, Linear Equations, and Extended Definitions (77)
Revised report on the algorithmic languageAlgol 60 (75)
Programming language semantics and closed applicative languages (54)
The FORTRAN Automatic Coding System (44)
An introduction to the programming language FL (39)
The IBM 701 Speedcoding System (35)
Software I: Function-level computing: A new programming method, linked to radically different architectures, may greatly simplify software development (29)
The Fortran Automatic Coding System for the IBM 704 EDPM (27)
Function level programs as mathematical objects (23)
Programming in America in the 1950s—Some Personal Impressions (22)
From Function Level Semantics to Program Transformation and Optimization (22)
IRI Achievement Award Address: In Research, Failure Is the Partner of Success (13)
Modified Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60 (8)
Open Letter to Congress (4)
The history of Fortran I, II, and III (4)
Funding the computing revolution's third wave (4)
In Research Failure Is the Partner of Success : Research Management (1)
A comment on unrealistic resonance curves (0)
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PENQUIS SUPERINTENDENTS' ASSOCIATION RESEARCH COOPERATIVE (0)
Fortran (0)
Transcript of presentation (0)
Can Programming Be Liberated from the von N e u m a n n Style ? A Funct ional Style and Its Algebra of Programs (0)
Chairman: JAN Lee Speaker: John Backus Discussant: George Ryckman PAPER: THE HISTORY OF FORTRAN I, II, AND III (0)
A Restless Inventor (0)
II – FORTRAN Session (0)
Appendix: Report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60 (0)
One Man, Many Ministries: Recollections from the Life and Ministry of William G. Zell (0)
Presentation of the Industrial Research Institute Achievement Award (0)
Function level programming and the FL language (0)

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