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Dan Ingalls

Also Known As Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Jr.
Software And Its Engineering

Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Jr. is a pioneer of object-oriented computer programming and the principal architect, designer and implementer of five generations of Smalltalk environments. He designed the bytecoded virtual machine that made Smalltalk practical in 1976, and also invented bit blit, the general-purpose graphical operation that underlies most bitmap computer graphics systems today. 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
1944 1
Award
Grace Murray Hopper Award 2
Award
ACM Software System Award 2
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Source Wikipedia: Dan Ingalls

Invented

Source Wikidata: Smalltalk

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1. Wikipedia: Dan Ingalls
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    Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Jr. (born 1944) is a pioneer of object-oriented computer programming and the principal architect, designer and implementer of five generations of Smalltalk environments.
  • Infobox, Born
    1944
  • In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead paragraph
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2. Wikidata: Dan Ingalls
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