Stuart Feldman is an American computer scientist. He is best known as the creator of the
computer software
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The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital comput ...
program
Make. He was also an author of the first
Fortran 77 compiler
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, was part of the original group at
Bell Labs
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that created the
Unix
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operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...
,
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
University of Michigan School of Information
The University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI or iSchool) is the informatics and information science school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It offers baccalaureate, magisterial, and ...
. He was previously Vice President, Engineering, East Coast, at
Google
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, and before that Vice President of Computer Science at
IBM
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Research. Feldman has served on the board of the
Computing Research Association (CRA) and of the
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
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(AACSB International). He was chair of
ACM SIGPLAN
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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 ''
ACM Queue
ACM ''Queue'' (stylized ''acmqueue'') is a bimonthly computer magazine, targeted to software engineer
Software engineering is a branch of both computer science and engineering focused on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining softwar ...
'', a magazine he helped found with
Steve Bourne. He has also served on the editorial boards of
IEEE
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The IEEE ...
Internet Computing and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
He received an
A.B. in
astrophysical sciences from
Princeton University
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and a
Ph.D. in
applied mathematics
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from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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. In 2010 the
University of Waterloo
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awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Mathematics.
Feldman became a
Fellow
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of the
IEEE
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The IEEE ...
in 1991,
Fellow
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of the
ACM in 1995, and
Fellow
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of the
AAAS in 2007. In 2003, he was awarded
ACM's Software System Award for his creation of
Make.
References
External links
Photo of Feldman in "External Advisory Board - University of Michigan School of Information"
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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