Robert Stanley (Bob) Barton (February 13, 1925 - January 28, 2009) was the chief architect of the Burroughs B5000 and other computers such as the B1700, a co-inventor of dataflow architecture, and an influential professor at the University of Utah, where his students went on to play a large role in the development of computer science. He designed machines at an abstract level not tied to the technology constraints of the time, employing high-level languages and a stack machine in the B5000, the first such implementation in a mainframe computer; the design survives in the modern Unisys ClearPath MCP systems.
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Why did Robert S. Barton receive the W. Wallace McDowell Award?
Barton was honored in 1977 for the architectural ideas embodied in the Burroughs B-5000 and its successors.
The award citation credits his innovative architectural computer concepts, such as stack processing, data stored with self-describing tags, and the direct execution of higher level languages, as embodied in the B-5000 and successor machines. He received the award in 1977.
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Robert Stanley "Bob" Barton (February 13, 1925 - January 28, 2009) was the chief architect of the Burroughs B5000 and other computers such as the B1700, a co-inventor of dataflow architecture, and an influential professor at the University of Utah.
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