Ocupation: Computer Scientist
Life: December 17, 1920 - October 19, 2004
Birthday: December 17
Death: October 19
The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation which make it such an effective tool of thought.
source: "Notation as a Tool of Thought". Cvommunications of the ACM, 23 (8), (pp. 444 - 465), August 1980.
topic: Tools, Language, Well Known, Universality