Stuart Feldman is an American computer scientist. He is best known as the creator of the

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program Make. He was also an author of the first Fortran 77

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, was part of the original group at

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that created the

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, and participated in development of the ALTRAN and EFL programming languages. Feldman is the president of Schmidt Sciences. He was previously Chief Scientist at Schmidt Futures, and was a member of the dean's External Advisory Board at the

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. He was previously Vice President, Engineering, East Coast, at

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, and before that Vice President of Computer Science at

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Research. Feldman has served on the board of the Computing Research Association (CRA) and of the

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(AACSB International). He was chair of ACM

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and founding chair of ACM SIGecom. He was elected the President of the ACM in 2006. Feldman is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ''

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'', a magazine he helped found with Steve Bourne. He has also served on the editorial boards of

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Internet Computing and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He received an A.B. in astrophysical sciences from

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and a Ph.D. in

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from the

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. In 2010 the

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awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Mathematics. Feldman became a

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of the

in 1991,

of the ACM in 1995, and

of the AAAS in 2007. In 2003, he was awarded ACM's Software System Award for his creation of Make.

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Photo of Feldman in "External Advisory Board - University of Michigan School of Information"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Feldman, Stuart Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists Computer systems researchers Fellows of the IEEE 1995 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Presidents of the Association for Computing Machinery Google employees Unix people Scientists at Bell Labs Multics people