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Nationality
  
Rosen.1990a

Name
  
Saul Rosen


Died
  
June 9, 1991

Doctoral advisor
  
Hans Rademacher

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Born
  
February 8, 1922Port Chester (
1922-02-08
)

Thesis
  
Modular Transformations of Certain Series (1950)

Notable awards
  
ACM Distinguished Service Award 1984

Alma mater
  
University of Pennsylvania

Saul Rosen (February 8, 1922 – June 9, 1991) was an American computer science pioneer. He is known for designing the software of the first transistor-based computer Philco Transac S-2000, and for his work on programming language design which influenced the ALGOL language.

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In 1947, he was involved in establishing the Association for Computing Machinery; in particular he was the first editor of its journal Communications of the ACM. In 1979 he co-founded the journal Annals of the History of Computing, then published by AFIPS.

Selected publications

  • Saul Rosen (1953). "Modular transformation of certain series". Duke Mathematical Journal. 20 (4): 593—599. doi:10.1215/s0012-7094-53-02060-2. 
  • Saul Rosen (Jan 1967). Programming Systems and Languages. McGraw Hill Computer Science Series. New York/NY: McGraw Hill. ISBN 0070537089. 
  • Saul Rosen (Jul 1968). Electronic Computers —- A Historical Survey in Print (Computer Science Technical Report). Purdue University Department. 
  • Saul Rosen (1990). The Origins of Modern Computing (Computer Science Technical Report / Purdue e-Pubs). Purdue University. 
  • Saul Rosen (Sep 1990). "The Origins of Modern Computing". Computing Reviews. 31 (9): 449—481. 
  • Saul Rosen (Jun 1991). PHILCO: Some Recollections of the PHILCO TRANSAC S-2000 (Computer Science Technical Reports / Purdue e-Pubs). Purdue University. 

    • References

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