Saul Gorn (10 November 1912 – 22 February 1992) was an American pioneer in
computer
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and
information science
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who was a member of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the
University of Pennsylvania
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for more than 30 years.
Gorn was hired by the
Moore School
The Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania came into existence as a result of an endowment from Alfred Fitler Moore on June 4, 1923. It was granted to Penn's School of Electrical Engineering, located in the Town ...
as an
associate professor
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Overview
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in 1955. He worked on the early
ENIAC
ENIAC (; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. There were other computers that had these features, but the ENIAC had all of them in one packa ...
and
EDVAC computers.
The concept of a
Gorn address comes from a paper by him,
and the
Association for Computing Machinery
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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.
References
External links
*
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
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