Adin Falkoff
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Adin D. Falkoff Born in New Jersey
, a researcher and manager at IBM Research
since the 1950s for over forty years before retiring. He collaborated with Ken Iverson
from 1960 to 1980 on the design, development, and usage of the APL programming language
and its interactive environment. Of special note is his landmark article, A Formal Description of System/360
, describing the then new IBM System/360 computer system, formally, in APL.
He was a visiting member of the faculty of IBM's Systems Research Institute, and taught Computer Science
at Yale University
.
He was one of the researchers who established and managed the IBM Philadelphia Scientific Center.
Mr. Falkoff has received numerous awards for his work, especially for his work with APL.
He received a B.Ch.E.
from the City College of New York
, and an M.A.
in Mathematics
from Yale University
.
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
, a researcher and manager at IBM Research
IBM Research
IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects....
since the 1950s for over forty years before retiring. He collaborated with Ken Iverson
Kenneth E. Iverson
Kenneth Eugene Iverson was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 for his contributions to mathematical notation and programming language theory...
from 1960 to 1980 on the design, development, and usage of the APL programming language
APL programming language
APL is an interactive array-oriented language and integrated development environment, which is available from a number of commercial and noncommercial vendors and for most computer platforms. It is based on a mathematical notation developed by Kenneth E...
and its interactive environment. Of special note is his landmark article, A Formal Description of System/360
System/360
The IBM System/360 was a mainframe computer system family first announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and sold between 1964 and 1978. It was the first family of computers designed to cover the complete range of applications, from small to large, both commercial and scientific...
, describing the then new IBM System/360 computer system, formally, in APL.
He was a visiting member of the faculty of IBM's Systems Research Institute, and taught Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
.
He was one of the researchers who established and managed the IBM Philadelphia Scientific Center.
Mr. Falkoff has received numerous awards for his work, especially for his work with APL.
He received a B.Ch.E.
Bachelor of Engineering
The Bachelor of Engineering is an undergraduate academic degree awarded to a student after three to five years of studying engineering at universities in Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland , Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Korea,...
from the City College of New York
City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning...
, and an M.A.
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
in Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
.
Representative publications
- Adin D. Falkoff, "Algorithms for Parallel-Search Memories". Journal of the ACMJournal of the ACMThe Journal of the ACM is the flagship scientific journal of the Association for Computing Machinery . It is peer-reviewed and covers computer science in general, especially theoretical aspects. Its current editor-in-chief is Victor Vianu, from University of California, San Diego.The journal has...
9:4:488-511 (1962) - Adin D. Falkoff, Kenneth E. Iverson, Edward H. Sussenguth Jr., "A Formal Description of SYSTEM/360". IBM Systems Journal 3:3:198-262 (1964) full text in PDF
- Falkoff, A.D., and K.E. Iverson, APL\360 User’s Manual, IBM Corporation, 1968-08. full text in PDF
- Falkoff, A.D., and K.E. Iverson, "The Design of APL", IBM Journal of Research and Development 17:4, 1973-07. full text in PDF
- Falkoff, A.D., and K.E. Iverson, "The Evolution of APL", ACM SIGPLAN Notices 13:8, 1978-08. full text in PDF
- Falkoff. A.D., and K.E. Iverson, A Source Book In APL, APL Press, 1981
- Falkoff, A.D., "The IBM Family of APL Systems", IBM Systems Journal 30:4, 1991-12. full text in PDF