John Kenneth Iliffe (September 18, 1931 - February 16, 2020) was a British computer scientist known for the design and evaluation of computers supporting fine grained memory protection and object management, and for inventing the Iliffe vector, a storage structure for multidimensional arrays used in later programming systems. Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, he led operating system and programming language development for the Rice R1 computer at Rice University from 1958 to 1961, then contributed to the ICL Basic Language Machine project at International Computers Limited from 1963 to 1968, and later held positions at Queen Mary University of London and Imperial College London. He received the IEEE Computer Society Harry H. Goode Memorial Award in 2000 for lifetime achievement in the practice of computer system design and evaluation.
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