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Jacob T. Schwartz

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Jacob Theodore Schwartz, known as Jack Schwartz, was an American mathematician and computer scientist, born in 1930 and died in 2009, who served as a professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He designed the SETL programming language and started the NYU Ultracomputer project. He also founded the New York University Department of Computer Science and chaired it from 1964 to 1980.

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1930 1
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was an American mathematician, computer scientist
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January 9, 1930
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created in 1969 by Jacob T. Schwartz
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