Horace Enea

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Horace Joseph Enea (born June 5, 1941 in Antioch , California , † February 4, 2009 in Los Altos , California) was an American computer scientist .

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Horace Enea was born on June 5, 1941 as the son of Joseph J. "Joe" Enea, also Joe "The Milkman" Enea (1910–1982), and his wife Frances Yanish Enea (1918–1990) in the city of Antioch in the US State of California born. His paternal grandparents were Orazio Enea (1877–1963) and Pitrina Lucido Enea (1887–1971) from Italy . Born in Antioch, Enea grew up mainly in Pittsburg , California, where he also received his schooling. He then studied computer science at Stanford University , where he also worked at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory . In collaboration with Larry Tesler , he developed the functional programming language Compel at the end of the 1960s . In addition to computer science, Enea was also particularly interested in jazz , rare literature and astronomy . An avid musician himself, Enea was for some time president of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band ( LSJUMB ; Stanford Band ).

He met his wife Anne at Stanford University when she asked him for a grant to write a computer program. In addition to the aforementioned Compel programming language, which he developed with Tesler, he also created the natural language program PARRY together with the psychiatrist Kenneth Colby at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory . Another programming language that he developed is MLISP , a variant of Lisp that he implemented for the IBM 360 . At Stanford he also worked closely with David Canfield Smith . He later founded Heuristics, Inc. , the first microprocessor-based speech recognition company, and co-founded the venture capital group at Apple . In 1996, he helped raise funds for BEA Systems, Inc. , the fastest growing software company in history at the time.

Enea died on February 4, 2009 at the age of 67 in the Californian city of Los Altos and was buried on February 11, 2009 in the Gate Of Heaven Catholic Cemetery (St. Peter Section, Row 7, Grave 17) in Los Altos. He was survived by his wife Anne, children Kristine and John, grandchildren Jason and Nicholas, and brother Joe with sister-in-law Francine.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ LG Tesler, Horace Enea: A language design for concurrent processes . In: AFIPS '68 (Spring) Proceedings of the April 30 - May 2, 1968, spring joint computer conference . April 1968, pp. 403-408. doi : 10.1145 / 1468075.1468134 .
  2. ↑ Report Number: CS-TR-68-92 (English), accessed on February 24, 2020
  3. ↑ MLISP by Horace Enea , accessed February 24, 2020
  4. ↑ Horace Enea on Legacy.com, accessed February 24, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Enea, Horace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Enea, Horace Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Antioch , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 2009
Place of death Los Altos , California , United States