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Jean Ichbiah
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Jean David Ichbiah (25 March 1940 – 26 January 2007) was a French-born computer scientist and the chief designer of the Ada programming language from 1977–1983. At the time, he was a member of the Programming Research division at CII Honeywell Bull (CII-HB) in Louveciennes, France. He had previously designed an experimental system implementation language called LIS (1972–1974), based on Pascal and Simula[1] (in fact, he had been chairman of the Simula User's Group), and was one of the founding members of IFIP WG 2.4 on Systems Implementation Languages. [2]
After Ada was selected by the United States Department of Defense (DoD), Ichbiah left CII-HB and founded the Alsys Corporation in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, which continued language definition work on Ada and later went into the Ada compiler business. He later moved to the Waltham, Massachusetts subsidiary of Alsys. Ichbiah later started the Textware company, which sells text entry software for PDAs and tablet PCs, as well as text entry software for Medical Transcription on PCs.
Jean Ichbiah was a member of the French Legion of Honor and the French Academy of Sciences, and received a Certificate of Distinguished Service from the DoD for his work on Ada.
He was a descendant of Jews from Thessaloniki who emigrated to France.[3] He died of the complications of a brain tumor on January 26, 2007.[4]
- ^ Software at Bull. Retrieved on February 13, 2007. “LIS was an experimental implementation language designed by Jean Ichbiah on Siris8. LIS was not used on commercial CII products. LIS was inspired by Pascal and Simula and has contributed to the definition of Ada.”
- ^ Gerhard Goos. The Beginning of IFIP Working Group 2.4. Retrieved on February 13, 2007.
- ^ Jean Ichbiah. Disappointed by lack of localization/customization capabilities. Retrieved on February 13, 2007. “…my mother was born in Saloniki”
- ^ Joyce Tokar (2007-01-28). "In Rememberance of Jean Ichbiah". comp.lang.ada. (Google Groups). Retrieved on 2007-02-13.
- Jean Ichbiah passes away, press release by the Ada Resource Association
- "Programming pioneer dies — A tribute to Ada's Jean Ichbiah", by Phil Manchester (2007-02-02)
- Obituary by Bertrand Meyer
- Jean Ichbiah, 66; designed landmark computer language
- Ada inventor Jean Ichbiah dies
- Jean Ichbiah — Members of the French Academy of Sciences (French)
- Ada 83 designer Jean Ichbiah died, by Ada-Europe
- Jean Ichbiah (October 1984). "Ada: Past, Present, Future — An Interview with Jean Ichbiah, the Principal Designer of Ada". Communications of the ACM 27 (10): 990–997.