Computer Science

Some old technical papers

• John Backus's seminal paper on functional programming languages: Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs (pdf).  Communications of the ACM, August 1978.
• Dissertation abstract: Coordination of Computation in a Binary Tree of Processors: An Architectural Proposal (doc).  1981.
• Dissertation summary: Implanting FFP Trees in Binary Trees: An Architectural Proposal (pdf).  1981.
• Patent based on dissertation: Syntactically self-structuring cellular computer  (Patent 4,583,164.  Filed 1981, issued 1986.)
• Conference paper: A Graphics Facility Useful for Performance Monitoring on an NCUBE (pdf).  1988.

• Conference paper: A Collection of NCUBE UNIX Utilities (pdf).  1988.

• Patent based on parallel computing work at Shell Development Company: Seismic migration on multiprocessor computer (Patent 5,198,979.  Filed 1989, issued 1993.)
• Publications list (doc)

John Backus

• Wikipedia article about John W. Backus
• IBM article about John W. Backus
• Photo (circa 1978) of Fred Brooks (left) and John Backus (right) (copyright Dave Tolle).  Backus won the Turing Award in 1977.  Brooks won it in 1999.
• List of all Turing Award winners
• New York Times obituary of John Backus (March 20, 2007)

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