William Wulf

William Allan Wulf (born December 8, 1939) is a computer scientist notable for his work in programming languages and compilers.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, he attended the University of Illinois, receiving a BS in Engineering Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering, then achieved the first Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. While at Carnegie Mellon University, he designed the BLISS programming language and developed a groundbreaking optimizing compiler for it.

He is University Professor and AT&T Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. He served as president of the National Academy of Engineering^[1] from 1996 to 2007. He chaired the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council from 1992-1996. He serves on the Council of the ACM, on the board of directors of CRDF Global^[2] , and is a reviewing editor of Science. In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the ACM. William Wulf is married to Anita K. Jones, also a professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, and they live in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Wulf's research has also included computer architecture, computer security, and hardware-software codesign.

Publications

Wulf, W. A., "Programming Without the GOTO," Proceedings of the Internationale Federation of Information Processing, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, August 1971.
Wulf, W. A., et al., "Reflections on a Systems Programming Language," Proceedings of the SIGPLAN Symposium on System Implementation Languages, Purdue University, October 1971.
McCredie, J., Wulf, W. A., "The Selection of a Computing Alternative," Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Conference, IEEE, Boston, September 1971.
Wulf, W. A., "A Case Against the GOTO," Proceedings of the ACM National Conference, ACM, Boston, August 1972.
Wulf, W. A., and Shaw, M., "Global Variables Considered Harmful," SIGPLAN Notices 8(2), February 1973.
Wulf, W. A., Shaw, M., Hilfinger, P. N., and Flon, L., Fundamental Structures of Computer Science Addison-Wesley, 1980.
Wulf, W. A., Johnson, R., Weinstock, C., Hobbs, S., and Geschke, C., The Design of an Optimizing Compiler American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1975.
Shaw, M. and Wulf, W., "Tyrannical Languages Still Preempt System Design", Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Languages, April 1992.

References

^ Hamm, Steve (23 February 2007). "The Turing Award Honors Frances Allen". Bloomberg Businessweek. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2007/tc20070223_452541.htm. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
^ "Dr. William Wulf". http://www.crdf.org/profiles/profiles_show.htm?doc_id=604584. Retrieved 3 May 2011.

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Name	Wulf, William
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Short description	Computer scientist
Date of birth	December 8, 1939
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