Carl Hewitt
Carl E. Hewitt is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He became known for the programming language Planner he developed . This was the first programming language that allowed targeted programming using assertions and execution patterns. He also developed the actuator model in the area of parallel programming . This development had an impact on the Scheme programming language , the Pi calculus, and served as inspiration for numerous other programming languages. Hewitt made further scientific contributions in the field of open information systems and multi-agent systems .
education
Hewitt received his Ph.D. 1971 at MIT. His supervisors were Seymour Papert , Marvin Minsky and Mike Paterson .
Career at MIT
Doctoral students Hewitt supervised at MIT included Gul Agha, Russell Atkinson, Henry Baker, Gerald Barber, Peter Bishop, Gene Ciccarelli, William Clinger, Peter de Jong, Michael Freiling, Irene Greif, Kenneth Kahn, William Kornfeld, and Akinori Yonezawa.
From September 1989 to August 1990, Hewitt was Visiting Professor at the IBM Chair at the Department of Computer Science at Keiō University in Japan.
During the university year 1999/2000, Hewitt retired from the university.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl Hewitt, Peter Bishop and Richard Steiger: A Universal Modular Actor Formalism for Artificial Intelligence (PDF; 177 kB) , IJCAI, 1973
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hewitt, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hewitt, Carl E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1950 |