Stuart Feldman

Stuart Feldman is an American computer scientist. He is known especially for the development of make. Between 2006 and 2008 he was president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM ).

Career

Feldman studied physics at Princeton University and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Feldman was employed at Bell Laboratories, where he was involved in the development of the Unix operating system. He is best known for the development of Programs make. He was also one of the authors of the first FORTRAN 77 compiler.

He was chairman of the ACM SIGPLAN ( Special Interest Group on Programming Languages ​​) and founding president of the ACM SIGecom ( Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce ). For the years 2006 to 2008, he was elected president of the Association for Computing Machinery. He's in the Editoral Board of several scientific computer science magazines, such as ACM Queue, IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Since 1991 he is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM since 1995. He is currently vice president for development at the east coast of the United States at Google.

Awards

Make (software) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Integrated Authority File
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