Richard Walter Conway (December 12, 1931 - March 19, 2024) was an American industrial engineer and computer scientist, the Emerson Electric Company Professor of Manufacturing Management, Emeritus, in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He spent his entire academic career at Cornell, known for work on computer simulation methodology, production scheduling theory, and developing computer languages including the widely used PL/C dialect of IBM's PL/I, and was the first director of Cornell's Office of Computing Services.
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What made the CORC compiler that Richard W. Conway built unusual?
CORC stood out for its extensive error detection and repair.
Conway was a developer and co-author of numerous computer programming languages, and CORC, the Cornell Compiler, was the first of them. The INFORMS biography calls it unique and path breaking because it had extensive error detection and repair.
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Richard Walter Conway (December 12, 1931 – March 19, 2024) was an American industrial engineer and computer scientist who was the Emerson Electric Company Professor of Manufacturing Management, Emeritus in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
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Richard Walter Conway (December 12, 1931 - March 19, 2024) was an American industrial engineer and computer scientist who was the Emerson Electric Company Professor of Manufacturing Management, Emeritus in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
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He was especially known for his work and publications in foundational questions about computer simulation methodology; in writing about production scheduling theory; in developing computer languages and language compilers, including the widely used PL/C dialect of IBM's PL/I language; in authoring or co-authoring textbooks about computer programming; and in developing simulation software for manufacturing.
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