Guy L. Steele Jr.

American computer scientist (born 1954) ProfessorGuy Lewis Steele Jr.PhDGuy Steele in 2015Born (1954-10-02) October 2, 1954 (age 71)Missouri, United StatesOther namesGreat Quux, GLSEducationBA, Harvard University, 1975MS, PhD, MIT, 1977, 1980Known forEmacsProgramming languagesTechnical standardsAwardsACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, 1988Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, 2007Scientific careerFieldsComputer scienceWorkplacesCarnegie Mellon UniversityTartan LaboratoriesThinking MachinesSun MicrosystemsOracle CorporationDoctoral advisorGerald Sussman Guy Lewis Steele Jr. (/stiːl/; born October 2, 1954) is an American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages and technical standards. Biography Steele was born in Missouri and graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1972. He received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in applied mathematics from Harvard University (1975) and a Master's degree (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in computer science (1977, 1980). He then worked as an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and a compiler implementer