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Gerald Jay Sussman

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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.

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1947 1
Birth Date
1947-02-08 1
Nationality
American 1
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Scheme, Languages
Source Wikipedia: Scheme (programming language)
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1. Wikipedia: Gerald Jay Sussman
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Sussman and his former student, Guy L. Steele Jr., invented the programming language Scheme in 1975
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1. Wikipedia: Gerald Jay Sussman
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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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Wikipedia: Scheme (programming language)
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