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David Luckham

Also Known As David C. Luckham
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David Luckham is an emeritus professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. As a graduate student at MIT he was one of the implementers of the first systems for the Lisp programming language, and he is best known as the originator of complex event processing, proposed in his 2002 book The Power of Events. He was a cofounder of Rational Software in 1981 and supplied the compiler for the Ada language used in the company's first products.

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Birth Year
1934 1
Birth Date
1934-09-07 1
Nationality
British 2
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Formal Methods, Fields
Source David Luckham, Wikipedia
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1. David Luckham (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: David C. Luckham
    David C. Luckham
  • P569 (date of birth): year 1934
    1934
  • P569 (date of birth): 1934-09-07
    1934-09-07
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2. David Luckham, Wikipedia
  • Infobox: citizenship
    United Kingdom, United States
  • In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead
    As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he was one of the implementers of the first systems for the programming language Lisp.
  • In Field: Formal Methods, Infobox: known_for
    Lisp Automated theorem proving Stanford Pascal Verifier Complex event processing Rational Software
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