Hi John, it's great to make contact with you. Ever since I came to work in what we still call Watson Lab, you have been the local hero. I first encountered computing and Fortran in 1965 in the Army, ...

Born on December 3, 1924, in Wilmington, Delaware, John Warner Backus was a key figure in the evolution of computer science. He is known for developing FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level ...