Alfred Aho
Alfred Aho (born August 9, 1941) is a Canadian computer scientist best known for his work on programming languages, compilers, and related algorithms, and his textbooks on the art and science of computer programming.
Quotes
[edit]- Fundamentally, computer science is a science of abstraction — creating the right model for thinking about a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.
- Foundations of Computer Science, Chapter 1 by Al Aho and Jeff Ullman [1]
Quotes about Alfred Aho
[edit]- Al Aho was in fact an undergraduate at the University of Toronto a year ahead of me, he was a graduate student at Princeton a year ahead of me, he went to Bell Labs a year ahead of me, and we were in essentially almost adjacent offices at that point and he has been variously my boss and of course friend for, at this point creeping up on 60 years.
- Brian Kernighan Coffee with Brian Kernighan from Computerphile on YouTube [2]
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Categories:
- 1941 births
- Canadian computer scientists
- Canadian people of Finnish descent
- Columbia University faculty
- Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
- Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Fellow Members of the IEEE
- American people of Finnish descent
- Living people
- Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
- Programming language designers
- Scientists at Bell Labs
- Theoretical computer scientists
- Turing Award laureates
- University of Toronto alumni
- People from Timmins
- Scientists from Ontario
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
- Canadian textbook writers