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Gerald Jay Sussman

Also Known As Gerald J. Sussman
Software And Its Engineering

Gerald Jay Sussman is the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, where he has worked in artificial intelligence research since 1964. He and his student Guy L. Steele Jr. invented the Scheme programming language in 1975, and with Hal Abelson and Julie Sussman he co-authored the influential textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1947 1
Birth Date
1947-02-08 1
Nationality
American 1
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IEEE Fellow 2
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Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2
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IJCAI Computers and Thought Award 2
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Gerald Jay Sussman
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Scheme, Programming Languages
Source Wikipedia: Scheme (programming language)
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1. Wikipedia: Gerald Jay Sussman
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  • Academic work section
    Sussman and his former student, Guy L. Steele Jr., invented the programming language Scheme in 1975
  • Lead section
    Gerald Jay Sussman (born February 8, 1947) is the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been involved in artificial intelligence (AI) research at MIT since 1964.
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Wikipedia: Scheme (programming language)
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