JOHN WARNER BACKUS December 3, 1924 – March 17. 2007 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ashland, Oregon.

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JOHN WARNER BACKUS December 3, 1924 – March Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ashland, Oregon

AWARDS AND EDUCATION  Education: Columbia University (1949), The Hill School, University of Virginia  Awards: Turing Award, Charles Stark Draper Prize, National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science

WHAT DID HE DO !  He directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN)  Inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define formal language syntax.  He also did research in function-level programming and helped to popularize it.