Peter J. Weinberger
Peter Jay Weinberger (born August 6, 1942 in New York City ) is an American mathematician and computer scientist .
Weinberger attended Swarthmore College (bachelor's degree in 1964) and received his doctorate in mathematics ( number theory ) at the University of California, Berkeley ( A proof on a conjecture of Gauss on class number two ) in 1969 under Derrick Henry Lehmer . As a post-doctoral student he was at Bellcomm Inc. 1970 to 1976 he was an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . From 1976, he was with the Bell Labs of AT & T . In 1983 he became head of the Computer Science Research department and in 1990 director of the Software and System Research Lab.
He became known through his work at Bell Labs, where he designed the programming language Awk in 1977 together with Alfred V. Aho and Brian W. Kernighan (the "W" in AWK stands for Weinberger).
Since 2003 he has been working for Google Inc.
Works
- with Alfred V. Aho and Brian W. Kernighan: The AWK Programming Language . Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X
Web links
- "From AWK to Google. Peter Weinberger Talks Search. " Interview about his work at Google
- 1989 Princeton University interview
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth and career dates from American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weinberger, Peter J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weinberger, Peter Jay (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician and computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |