Carl Hewitt

Carl E. Hewitt is Emeritus Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

He was known by the programming language he developed Planner. This was the first programming language that allowed the targeted programming using assertions and design patterns. Was also developed by him the actuators model in the field of parallel programming. This development had an impact on the Scheme programming language, the pi-calculus and served as inspiration for many other programming languages. Other scientific contributions provided Hewitt in the field of open information systems and multi-agent systems.

Training

Hewitt received his Ph.D. 1971 at MIT. His caregivers were Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky and Mike Paterson.

Career at MIT

Among the doctoral students who assisted Hewitt at MIT, were about Gul Agha, Russell Atkinson, Henry Baker, Gerald Barber, Peter Bishop, Gene Ciccarelli, William Clinger, Peter de Jong, Michael Freiling, Irene Greif, Kenneth Kahn, William Kornfeld and Akinori Yonezawa.

From September 1989 to August 1990 Hewitt was Visiting Professor at the IBM Chair at the Department of computer science of Keio University in Japan.

During the academic year 1999/2000 Hewitt retired from the university.

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