Saul Gorn (10 November 1912 – 22 February 1992) was an American pioneer in

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and

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who was a member of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the

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for more than 30 years. Gorn was hired by the

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as an

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in 1955. He worked on the early

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and EDVAC computers. The concept of a Gorn address comes from a paper by him, and the

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(ACM) presented him its Distinguished Service Award for 1974. The Saul Gorn Memorial Lecture series has been established at the University of Pennsylvania in his memory.

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Self-Annihilating Sentences: Saul Gorn's Compendium of Rarely Used Clichés
, University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-85-0, January 1985; reissued in memoriam as No. MS-CIS-92-25, March 1992. (An unsourced collection of oxymoronic and tautological quotes.) *
Saul Gorn
, in John A. N. Lee, ''International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers'', 1995, , pp. 342–348 1912 births 1992 deaths University of Pennsylvania faculty American computer scientists {{US-scientist-stub