Stuart Feldman is a 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 Chief Scientist at Schmidt Futures. He was previously 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 IBM Research. Feldman has served on the board of the

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(CRA) and of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (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

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in astrophysical sciences from

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and a

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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

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for his creation of

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Photo of Feldman in "External Advisory Board - University of Michigan School of Information"
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