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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AwardFellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2 AwardIJCAI Computers and Thought Award 2 Highest Honour Connections
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Sussman and his former student, Guy L. Steele Jr., invented the programming language Scheme in 1975
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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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IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1981) ACM Fellow (1990)
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It was first released by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986
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