Source: thenewstack.io
How Two Bell Labs Researchers Set the Rules for the Modern CompilerCategory: Software, Database, automation
Two alumni of the historic Bell Labs research facility recently have received one of the highest honors in the computer programming field. Alfred Aho, 79, and Jeffrey Ullman, 78, were awarded the prestigious Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a 100,000-member professional group describing itself as “the world’s largest scientific and educational computing society.”
Ullman and Aho were being officially recognized for a lifetime of work on “fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation and for synthesizing these results and those of others in their highly influential books, which educated generations of computer scientists.”
The ACM’s website even argues that efficient compilers “exist nowadays in large part due to the work of Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman.”
But Ullman and Aho had first started by systematically studying all of the existing models and algorithms for both compiling and parsing, Aho recalled in an ACM interview.
Ullman and Aho were being officially recognized for a lifetime of work on “fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation and for synthesizing these results and those of others in their highly influential books, which educated generations of computer scientists.”
The ACM’s website even argues that efficient compilers “exist nowadays in large part due to the work of Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman.”
But Ullman and Aho had first started by systematically studying all of the existing models and algorithms for both compiling and parsing, Aho recalled in an ACM interview.
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