George H. Mealy

George H. Mealy (December 31, 1927 – June 21, 2010 in Scituate, Massachusetts)[1] was an American mathematician and computer scientist who invented the namesake Mealy machine, a type of finite state transducer. He was also a pioneer of modular programming,[2][3] one of the lead designers of the IPL-V programming language,[4] and an early advocate of macro processors in assembly language programming.[5]

Mealy went to Harvard University, where he was active in radio as business manager for WHRB.[6] He graduated in 1951 with an A.B., and at that time began working for Bell Laboratories.[7] He later taught at Harvard.[8]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ George H. Mealy obituary, tributes.com, retrieved 2015-04-20.
  2. ↑ Jackson, Michael (2002), "JSP in Perspective", in Broy, Manfred; Denert, Ernst, Software Pioneers: Contributions to Software Engineering (PDF), Springer, pp. 480–493, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-59412-0_30.
  3. ↑ Jackson, Michael (2000), Tomayko, James E., ed., "The Origins of JSP and JSD: a Personal Recollection" (PDF), Anecdotes, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 22 (2): 61–63, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2000.841138.
  4. ↑ Simon, Herbert A.; Newell, Allen (January 1986), "Information Processing Language V on the IBM 650" (PDF), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 8 (1): 47–49, doi:10.1109/MAHC.1986.10020.
  5. ↑ Walden, David (2014), "Macro memories, 1964–2013" (PDF), TUGboat 35 (1): 99–109.
  6. ↑ "WHRB Officers", The Harvard Crimson, February 17, 1951.
  7. ↑ "Contributors to This Issue", Bell System Technical Journal 38 (2), 1959: 606–610, doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1959.tb03904.x.
  8. ↑ George H. Mealy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project