Saul Gorn

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

Saul Gorn (10 November 1912 – 22 February 1992) was an American pioneer in computer and information science{{cite web | url=http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/3445870 | title=Saul Gorn | publisher=Microsoft | work=Microsoft Academic Search | accessdate=December 14, 2011 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104071927/http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/3445870 | archive-date=January 4, 2013 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }} who was a member of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 30 years.

Gorn was hired by the Moore School as an associate professor in 1955.{{cite web | url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/computers/two.html | title=After ENIAC: Important Milestones and Fascinating Innovations During the Last Fifty Years of Computing Research at Penn | publisher=University of Pennsylvania, USA | accessdate=December 14, 2011 | author=Heavens, Nicholas G.}} He worked on the early ENIAC and EDVAC computers.

In 1958, Gorn was the chair of a committee created by the Association for Computing Machinery to investigate the social responsibility of computer scientists.{{cite magazine |last=Berkeley |first= Edmund|title= The Social Responsibilities of Computer People - ACM Committee Report |magazine=Computers & Automation |date=1959-02-01|volume=8|issue=2 |pages=5-7}} - Cited: p. 7. He served on the committee with Melvin A. Shader, Arvid Jacobson, and Edmund Berkeley, who had petitioned for its creation.

The concept of a Gorn address comes from a paper by him, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) presented him its Distinguished Service Award for 1974.{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}}

The Saul Gorn Memorial Lecture series has been established at the University of Pennsylvania in his memory.{{cite web | url=http://www.cis.upenn.edu/departmental/events/2011SaulGornMemorialLecture.shtml | title=Saul Gorn Memorial Lecture, 2011 | publisher=University of Pennsylvania, USA | date=2011 | accessdate=December 14, 2011}}