Adin Falkoff
{{Short description|American computer engineer (1921–2010)}}
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| birth_place = New Jersey, United States
| death_date = {{Death date and age |2010|08|13 |1921|12|19}}
| death_place = Pleasantville, New York
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| fields = {{Unbulleted list |Computer engineering |Computer science}}
| workplaces = {{Unbulleted list |IBM |Yale University}}
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| education = {{Unbulleted list |B.Ch.E., City College of New York, 1941 |M.A. Mathematics, Yale University, 1963}}
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| known_for = Engineering and design of programming language APL with Kenneth E. Iverson
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| spouse = Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff
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Adin D. Falkoff (19 December 1921[https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/December/19/ Computer History Museum page]
– 13 August 2010[https://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/ssdi/individual_record.asp?recid=088166272&lds=3®ion=-1®ionfriendly=&juris1=&juris2=&juris3=&juris4=®ionfriendly=&juris1friendly=&juris2friendly=&juris3friendly=&juris4friendly=)/ US Social Security Death Record published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]) was an engineer and computer systems and programming systems designer who was mostly known for his work on the programming language APL and systems for IBM.
Career
Falkoff, born in New Jersey, received a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Ch.E.) from the City College of New York in 1941, and a Master's degree (M.A.) in Mathematics from Yale University in 1963.
He was a researcher and manager at IBM Research since 1955 for over forty years before retiring.Cf. [https://www.wsis-cs.org/igfnominees.shtml?slice_id=3e640adb2506b8421b3f31232657571b&sh_itm=74e13b9344ccc967de34c41711c1bfa7 bio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218133610/http://www.wsis-cs.org/igfnominees.shtml?slice_id=3e640adb2506b8421b3f31232657571b&sh_itm=74e13b9344ccc967de34c41711c1bfa7 |date=2012-02-18 }} in letter of recommendation for his wife, Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff, to the Internet Governance Caucus IGF Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group He collaborated with Ken Iverson from 1960 to 1980 on the design, development, and use of the APL programming language and interactive environment.
Of special note is his landmark article, A Formal Description of System/360, describing the then new IBM System/360 computer system, formally, in APL programming notation.
Falkoff was a visiting member of the faculty of IBM's Systems Research Institute, and taught computer science at Yale University. He was one of the researchers who established and managed the IBM Philadelphia Scientific Center and received many awards for his work, especially with APL.
Representative publications
- Adin D. Falkoff, "Algorithms for Parallel-Search Memories". Journal of the ACM 9:4:488-511 (1962)
- Adin D. Falkoff, Kenneth E. Iverson, Edward H. Sussenguth Jr., [https://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/class.files.cs2321.html/falkoff.pdf "A Formal Description of System/360"]. IBM Systems Journal 3:3:198-262 (1964)
- Falkoff, A.D., and K.E. Iverson, APL\360 User’s Manual, IBM Corporation, August 1968. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120229200744/http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/apl/APL_360_Users_Manual_Aug68.pdf full text in PDF]
- Falkoff, A.D., and K.E. Iverson, "The Design of APL", IBM Journal of Research and Development 17:4, July 1973. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090305111808/http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/174/ibmrd1704F.pdf full text in PDF]
- Falkoff, A.D., and K.E. Iverson, "The Evolution of APL", ACM SIGPLAN Notices 13:8, August 1978. [https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLEvol.htm full text in PDF]
- Falkoff, A.D., and K.E. Iverson, A Source Book In APL, APL Press, 1981
- Falkoff, A.D., "The IBM Family of APL Systems", IBM Systems Journal 30:4, December 1991. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090326073935/http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/304/ibmsj3004C.pdf full text in PDF]
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