Richard Clippinger
Richard F. Clippinger (born April 10, 1913 in East Liberty , Ohio , † January 4, 1998 ) was an American computer scientist.
Clippinger attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio until 1933 , after which he studied for two years at the Sorbonne . He received his PhD in mathematics from Harvard University in 1940 under George David Birkhoff (On the semigroups generated by matrices). From 1944 to 1952 he was in the Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) on the Aberdeen Proving Ground of the US Army. There he developed test apparatus (Closed Chamber Firing Range) and dealt with the numerical solution of differential equations in ballistics on computers. In this context he converted the ENIAC , which was installed there, into a computer of the Von Neumann type with a storable program. From 1952 he was in Raytheon's computer laboratory , which became the Datamatic Corporation in 1954 and the EDP (Electronic Data Processing) division of Honeywell in 1956 . Until 1959, he was responsible for software development for the Honeywell 800 family of computers and was in charge of the development of the FACT programming language for business applications. He was Honeywell's representative at CODASYL . In 1976 he retired there.
In 1996 he received the Computer Pioneer Award .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clippinger, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clippinger, Richard F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Liberty , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 4, 1998 |