Guy Lewis Steele Jr.
Professor Guy Lewis Steele Jr. Is an american computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages and technical standards.
He helped define and promote a parallel computing version of the programming language named *Lisp (Star Lisp) and a parallel version of the language C named C*.
Steele received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1988. He was named an ACM Fellow in 1994, a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America in 2001 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002. He received the Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award in 2005.
Biography
1972
Born in Missouri and graduated from the Boston Latin School.
1975
Received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in applied mathematics from Harvard University.
1977
Recived a Master's degree (M.S.) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in computer science.
1980
Received a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in computer science.
1994
Joined Sun Microsystems and was invited by Bill Joy to become a member of the Java team after the language had been designed.
2003
He was named a Sun Fellow.
2005
Received the Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award.
2010
Joined Oracle in the same time when Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems.