Kenneth E. Iverson

Kenneth Eugene Iverson 17 December 1920 – 19 October 2004 was a Canadian computer scientist listed for the coding of a programming language APL. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 "for his pioneering try in programming languages in addition to mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows as APL; for his contributions to the carrying out of interactive systems, to educational uses of APL, as well as to programming language theory and practice".

Life

Ken Iverson was born on 17 December 1920 almost Camrose, a town in central Alberta, Canada. His parents were farmers who came to Alberta from North Dakota; his ancestors came from Trondheim, Norway.

During Queen's University and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. In his career, he worked for Harvard, IBM, I. P. Sharp Associates, and Jsoftware Inc. née Iverson Software Inc..

Iverson suffered a stroke while works at the computer on a new J lab on 16 October 2004, and died on 19 October 2004 at the age of 83.