Carl Eddie Hewitt was an American computer scientist who designed the Planner programming language for automated planning and the actor model of concurrent computation, both influential in the development of logic, functional and object oriented programming. Planner was the first programming language based on procedural plans invoked using pattern directed invocation from assertions and goals, and the actor model went on to influence the Scheme programming language and the pi-calculus and to inspire several other programming languages.
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Carl Hewitt
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Which doctoral students did Carl Hewitt supervise at MIT?
His MIT doctoral students included Gul Agha, Henry Baker, William Clinger, Irene Greif and Akinori Yonezawa.
Among the doctoral students Carl Hewitt supervised during his time at MIT are Gul Agha, Henry Baker, William Clinger, Irene Greif and Akinori Yonezawa, several of whom went on to their own influential work in concurrent and functional programming.
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Carl Hewitt introduced the actor model of concurrent computation in a 1973 paper with Peter Bishop and Richard Steiger.
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Carl Eddie Hewitt (; December 12, 1944 - December 7, 2022) was an American computer scientist who designed the Planner programming language for automated planning and the actor model of concurrent computation, which have been influential in the development of logic, functional and object-oriented programming.
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