Roger D. Moore (November 16, 1939 - March 21, 2019) was an American-born computer scientist best known for his work, with Larry Breed and Richard H. Lathwell, on the implementation of the APL\360 programming language, for which the three shared the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1973. Moore earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Stanford University in 1963 and had earlier worked on the SUBALGOL compiler there and on ALGOL 60 compilers for the Ferranti-Packard 6000 and the ICT 1900. In 1964 he co-founded I. P. Sharp Associates in Toronto, serving as its vice-president until 1989 and helping build its time-sharing services and the IPSANET packet-switching network.
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What was the Grace Murray Hopper Award that Roger Moore shared given for?
The 1973 award recognised the design and implementation of APL\360 with Larry Breed and Dick Lathwell.
In 1973 Roger Moore shared the Grace Murray Hopper Award with Larry Breed and Dick Lathwell, the three implementers of APL\360. The award was given for their work in the design and implementation of APL\360, setting new standards in simplicity, efficiency, reliability and response time for interactive systems. APL\360 was the first major implementation of the APL language. It ran on the IBM System/360 and was completed in November 1966, though it was mainly used within IBM until its public release in 1968.
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Moore (November 16, 1939 - March 21, 2019) was the 1973 recipient (with Larry Breed and Richard Lathwell) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead
Before this, he contributed to the SUBALGOL compiler at Stanford University and wrote the ALGOL 60 compiler for the Ferranti-Packard 6000 and the ICT 1900.
In Field: Computer Networking, Lead
Along with his work on the programming language APL, he was also instrumental in the development of IPSANET, a private packet switching data network.
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