Marc Alan Auslander is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to the PL/8 compiler. He spent his entire career at the IBM

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in Yorktown Heights, NY. Auslander received a

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degree in mathematics from

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in 1963. He joined IBM the same year. In 1991 he was named an

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. He retired in 2004 but continues to be affiliated with IBM as a Fellow Emeritus. In 1996, Auslander was elected to the

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''for contributions to reduced instruction set computing ( RISC) systems.'' In 1999 he was named both

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and

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, again for contributions to RISC. From 1970 to 1972 Auslander served as chairman of

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ACM. Retrieved April 16, 2018. He has authored 19 scientific papers and holds 14 U.S. patents.

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Personal homepage
at IBM
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at

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