Jean Ichbiah
Jean Ichbiah (born March 25, 1940 in Paris , † January 26, 2007 in Boston ) was a French computer scientist . From 1977 to 1983 he developed the Ada programming language .
Life
Jean Ichbiah was born in Paris as the grandson of Greek and Turkish immigrants. After successfully studying civil engineering at the École polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées , he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964 , where he dealt with the syntactic analysis of programming languages. In just two years he completed his studies there with a Ph. D. in civil engineering and operations research. On his return to France in 1967 he started a job with the company CII-Bull (later Honeywell -Bull ). There he implemented the Simula 67 programming language for the computer platforms there. As part of his work at Bull in 1977, he was commissioned to design a new programming language for the US Department of Defense, later known as Ada and standardized by ANSI in 1983 .
In 1980 Ichbiah founded Alsys (Ada Language Systems) in France to market and develop the new language. In 1993 he founded Textware in the United States.
Ichbiah was a corresponding member of the French Académie des Sciences and Knight of the French Legion of Honor .
Web links
- Notice nécrologique (French; archive version) ( Memento of May 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ichbiah, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 2007 |
| Place of death | Boston |