Richard P. Gabriel

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Richard P. Gabriel (* 1949 in Merrimac (Massachusetts) ) is an American computer scientist known for developing the Lisp programming language .

Gabriel was the son of dairy farmers and studied mathematics at Northeastern University with a bachelor's degree in 1972. He then studied at MIT, where he was a member of the AI ​​Lab under Patrick Winston . From 1975 he was at Stanford University with John McCarthy , where he received his doctorate in computer science in 1981 (with Terry Winograd ). He was then at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and in 1984 founded his own company, Lucid Inc., which existed until 1994 and developed and marketed an integrated development environment for Lisp for Risc architectures from Sun Microsystems. Since AI applications were less in demand at that time, they developed a C ++ development environment, for which they also further developed the free software GNU Emacs by Richard Stallman , which (after dissenting with Stallman) led to XEmacs . In 1994/95 he was Vice President for Development at ParcPlace Systems before becoming a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems (involved, among other things, in the Open Source Software Strategy). From 2007 he was Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research.

He is one of the developers of Common Lisp and developed benchmarks for Lisp programs in the mid-1980s. In an essay from 1991 he propagated the slogan Worse is better for the fact that functionality and quality in software do not necessarily go hand in hand ( contrasting an MIT / Stanford style of programming with a New Jersey style ).

He also published poetry (Drive On, Hollyridge Press 2005).

In 2004 he received the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award . He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery .

Fonts

  • Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems , MIT Press 1985
  • Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community , Oxford University Press 1998
  • Writers Workshops and the Work of Making Things. Patterns, Poetry ... , Addison-Wesley 2002
  • Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy , Morgan Kaufmann 2005
  • Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big, 1991, Online

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SURNAME Gabriel, Richard P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Merrimac (Massachusetts)