Kenneth E. Iverson

Kenneth E. Iverson
Born	(1920-12-17)17 December 1920 Camrose, Alberta, Canada
Died	19 October 2004(2004-10-19) (aged 83) Toronto, Canada
Alma mater	Queen's University Harvard University
Known for	Programming languages: APL, J
Awards	IBM Fellow Harry H. Goode Memorial Award Turing Award Computer Pioneer Award
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics Computer science
Institutions	Harvard University IBM I. P. Sharp Associates Jsoftware Inc.
Thesis	Machine Solutions of Linear Differential Equations – Applications to a Dynamic Economic Model (1954)
Doctoral advisor	Howard Aiken Wassily Leontief

Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920 – 19 October 2004) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the programming language APL. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 "for his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows as APL; for his contributions to the implementation of interactive systems, to educational uses of APL, and to programming language theory and practice".^[1]