Jim Brown (Computer Scientist)
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James A. Brown was manager of the group within IBM
responsible for the APL2 program product. APL2 was first available on IBM mainframes
in 1980, and was later available under Linux
, Unix
, and Windows. Brown was later a founder of Smart Arrays and has held a senior position in the company for many years. Brown was the 1993 recipient of the Iverson Award
from the Association for Computing Machinery
.
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
responsible for the APL2 program product. APL2 was first available on IBM mainframes
Mainframe computer
Mainframes are powerful computers used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and financial transaction processing.The term originally referred to the...
in 1980, and was later available under Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
, Unix
Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
, and Windows. Brown was later a founder of Smart Arrays and has held a senior position in the company for many years. Brown was the 1993 recipient of the Iverson Award
Iverson Award
The Iverson Award, more formally the Kenneth E. Iverson Award for Outstanding Contribution to APL, is presented by the Special Interest Group on APL of the Association for Computing Machinery . It is presented to a person who has made significant contributions to the APL programming language or to...
from the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
.