Donald Bruce Gillies (October 15, 1928 – July 17, 1975) was a Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who worked in the fields of computer design, game theory , and minicomputer programming environments .
12-405: (Redirected from Don Gillies ) Donald Gillies may refer to: Donald B. Gillies (1928–1975), mathematician and computer scientist Donald A. Gillies (born 1944), historian of mathematics Donnie Gillies (born 1951), Scottish footballer See also [ edit ] Donald Gillis (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
24-707: A fast-turnaround, in-memory, 2-pass compiler. The compiler, for the PDP-11/23 minicomputer, was completed before 1975. In 1974, Gillies became the first source code licensee for the Bell Labs UNIX operating system. Gillies died unexpectedly at age 46 on July 17, 1975, of a rare viral infection. In 1975, the Donald B. Gillies Memorial lecture was established at the University of Illinois, with one leading researcher from computer science appearing every year. The first lecturer
36-576: Is a reference to the work he had done on Internal Translator in 1956 (described by Donald Knuth as the first successful compiler), and as a member of the team that developed the programming language ALGOL . In 1971, Perlis moved to Yale University to take the chair of computer science and hold the Eugene Higgins chair. In 1977, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering . In 1982, he wrote an article, " Epigrams on Programming ", for
48-534: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Donald B. Gillies Donald B. Gillies was born in Toronto, Ontario , Canada, to John Zachariah Gillies (a Canadian) and Anne Isabelle Douglas MacQueen (an American). He attended the University of Toronto Schools , a laboratory school originally affiliated with the university. Gillies completed his undergraduate degree at
60-509: The IBM 7030 Stretch computer and was in the public domain. Gillies presented a talk on ILLIAC II at the University of Michigan Engineering Summer Conference in 1962. During checkout of ILLIAC II, Gillies found three new Mersenne primes , one of which was the largest prime number known at the time. In 1969, Gillies launched a project to build the first Pascal compiler written in North America,
72-614: The National Research Development Corporation . He returned to the US in 1956, married Alice E. Dunkle, and began a job as a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Starting in 1957, Gillies designed the three-stage pipeline control of the ILLIAC II supercomputer at the University of Illinois. The pipelined stages were named "advanced control", "delayed control", and "interplay". This work competed with
84-582: The University of Toronto . He began his graduate education at the University of Illinois and helped with the checkout of ORDVAC computer in the summer of 1951. After one year he transferred to Princeton to work for John von Neumann and developed the first theorems of core (game theory) in his PhD thesis. Gillies ranked among the top ten participants in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition held in 1950. Gillies moved to England for two years to work for
96-618: The Carnegie Institute of Technology (later renamed Carnegie Mellon University ). During World War II , he served in the U.S. Army , where he became interested in mathematics. He then earned both a master's degree (1949) and a Ph.D. (1950) in mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His doctoral dissertation was titled "On Integral Equations , Their Solution by Iteration and Analytic Continuation ". In 1952, he participated in Project Whirlwind . He joined
108-498: The faculty at Purdue University and in 1956, moved to the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He was chair of mathematics and then the first head of the computer science department. In 1962, he was elected president of the Association for Computing Machinery . He was awarded the inaugural Turing Award in 1966, according to the citation, "for his influence in the area of advanced programming techniques and compiler construction." This
120-408: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald_Gillies&oldid=1058324317 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
132-463: Was Alan Perlis . In 2006, the Donald B. Gillies Chair Professorship was established in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. Vikram Adve was invested as the second chair professor of the endowment in 2018. The Department of Computer Science awarded a Memorial Achievement Award to Gillies in 2011. Alan Perlis Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990)
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#1733201871294144-547: Was an American computer scientist and professor at Purdue University , Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University . He is best known for his pioneering work in programming languages and was the first recipient of the Turing Award . Perlis was born to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . He graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1939. In 1943, he received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from
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