Ike Nassi

Isaac Robert "Ike" Nassi, born in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York, is a computer scientist and technology executive best known for creating, with Ben Shneiderman, the Nassi-Shneiderman diagram notation, a highly influential way of drawing the flow of structured programs. He also helped design the Ada programming language. After Brooklyn Technical High School he studied mathematics and then computer science at Stony Brook University. His career has moved between research and industry. He held executive and management roles at Visual Technology, Digital Equipment Corporation and SofTech, helped start Encore Computer, a pioneer in symmetric multiprocessors, and later helped start InfoGear Technology and the wireless mesh company Firetide. At Apple he ran the Advanced Technology Group research lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, worked on the Dylan programming language and launched MkLinux. He was later executive vice president and chief scientist at SAP, and then founded TidalScale, where he served as chief technology officer and chairman, while teaching as an adjunct professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Senior Life Member of the ACM.