Herbert Gelernter is professor Emeritus of in the Computer department of Stony Brook university

Short biography

Studied for his Ph.D at Rochester university in 1957.
First implemented with Nathaniel Rochester

Nathaniel Rochester

Nathaniel Rochester was an American Revolutionary War soldier and land speculator, most noted for founding the settlement which would become Rochester, New York.-Early years:...

 a computer language for list processing within FORTRAN

Fortran

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, the work for this was done, in fact, with Carl Gerberich at IBM

IBM

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, to this end producing the FLPL (Fortran list processing language).

Further reading

• ACM Digital Library(Volume 7 Issue 2, April 1960) A Fortran-Compiled List-Processing Language: H. Gelernter;J. R. Hansen & C. L. Gerberich International Business Machines Co., Yorktown Heights, N.Y. doi>10.1145/321021.321022 17:13(GMT)26.10.2011
• © Copyright 2011 IEEE IBM Journal of Research and Development, Issue : Oct. 1958 Intelligent Behavior in Problem-Solving Machines Gelernter, H. L. ; Rochester, N.doi 10.1147/rd.24.0336 retrieved 17:19 (GMT) 26.10.2011
• H Gelernter - Proceedigns of the - aaai.org Realization of a geometry theorem proving machine retrieved 17:39 26.10.2011
• Empirical explorations of the geometry theorem machine H. Gelernter;J. R. Hansen;D. W. Loveland-IBM Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York retrieved 17:44(GMT) 26.10.2011

See also

• List of Jewish American computer scientists
• Nathaniel Rochester (computer scientist)
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• History of artificial intelligence
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