Jim Brown (computer scientist)

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James A. Brown
Born (1943-12-23) December 23, 1943 (age 81)Category:Date of birth not in Wikidata
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationPhD
Known for
  • APL2
  • SmartArrays (cofounder)
AwardsKenneth E. Iverson Award for Outstanding Contribution to APL
Scientific career
FieldsComputer software management
Institutions
  • IBM
  • SmartArrays (cofounder)
Websitewww.smartarrays.com
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James A. Brown was manager of the group within IBM responsible for the programming language APL2 program product. APL2 was first available on IBM mainframe computers in 1980, and was later available under Linux, Unix, and Windows. In 1993, Brown received the Kenneth E. Iverson Award for Outstanding Contribution to APL from the Association for Computing Machinery.[1]

In 1996, he left IBM to become a consultant and entrepreneur.[2] In 1999, Brown cofounded SmartArrays, Inc., and has held a senior position in the company for many years.[2] The firm develops specialized analytic software based on columnar databases, with memory-resident vector processing, for uses where customers consider commercial off-the-shelf software to be more expensive, slow, or limited. Note: SmartArrays ceased operations and the corporation was dissolved as of February 2019

References

  1. "Kenneth E. Iverson Award". Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
  2. 1 2 "About Us". SmartArrays. SmartArrays, Inc. Retrieved 2018-05-16.

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