When Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman met while waiting in the registration line on their first day of graduate school at Princeton University in 1963, computer science was still a strange new world.
Without a crucial software development tool called the compiler, we’d have to descend into the incomprehensible world of machine-code mutterings before we could control computers. Which is why two ...
NEW YORK, March 31, 2021 — ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Alfred Vaino Aho and Jeffrey David Ullman recipients of the 2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental algorithms ...