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Robert S. Barton
Robert S. Barton | |
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| Born | February 13, 1925 New Britain, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | January 28, 2009 (aged 83) Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
| Alma mater | State University of Iowa |
| Known for | Burroughs B5000 Stack machine |
| Awards | IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award IEEE-ACM Eckert–Mauchly Award (first recipient) IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (charter recipient) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Utah Burroughs Innovations & Inventions |
| Doctoral students | Alan Ashton Alan Davis |
Robert Stanley "Bob" Barton (February 13, 1925 – January 28, 2009) was the chief architect of the Burroughs B5000 and other computers such as the B1700, a co-inventor of dataflow architecture, and an influential professor at the University of Utah.
His students at Utah have had a large role in the development of computer science.
Barton designed machines at a more abstract level, not tied to the technology constraints of the time. He employed high-level languages and a stack machine in his design of the B5000 computer. Its design survives in the modern Unisys ClearPath MCP systems. His work with stack machine architectures was the first implementation in a mainframe computer.
Barton died on January 28, 2009, in Portland, Oregon, aged 83.[1][2]
- ^ "Passing of a Computer Science Pioneer", College of Engineering News, University of Utah, 2009
- ^ "Robert Barton, 83, services pending", The Hillsboro Argus, 2009-01-30.
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