- Stuart Feldman
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nationality =Stuart Feldman received an
A.B. inastrophysical sciences fromPrinceton University and aPh.D inapplied mathematics from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology . He is best known as the creator of thecomputer software program make for UNIX systems. He was also an author of the firstFortran 77 compiler , and he was part of the original group atBell Labs that created the Unixoperating system . Until recently, he was the Vice President of Computer Science atIBM Research. He is currently Vice President, Engineering, East Coast, atGoogle . [ [http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/execs.html#feldman Google Corporate Information] ]Dr. Feldman has served on the board of the
Computing Research Association (CRA) and of theAssociation to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). He was chair of ACMSIGPLAN and founding chair of ACM SIGecom. He was elected the President of the ACM in 2007 [ [http://news.com.com/The+tech+industrys+newest+power+player/2008-1022_3-6093527.html The tech industry's newest power player | Newsmakers | CNET News.com ] ] . Dr. Feldman is also a member of [http://www.acmqueue.com ACM Queue's] Editorial Advisory Board, a magazine he helped found with Steve Bourne. He has also served on the editorial boards of IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.Dr. Feldman became a
Fellow of the IEEE in 1991 and a Fellow of the ACM in 1995. In 2003, he was awarded ACM'sSoftware System Award for his creation of make. [ [http://www.acm.org/announcements/softwaresystemaward.3-24-04.html ACM Press Release ] ]References
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* [http://se.ethz.ch/~meyer/gallery/ Photo of Dr. Feldman in "computer scientists gallery"]
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