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John Cocke
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John Cocke was born on 30 May 1925 in Charlotte and died on 16 July 2002 in Valhalla. He was an American mathematician, computer scientist, engineer, and university teacher who was educated at Duke University. Cocke worked as an employee at IBM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and New York University. He received the IBM Fellow award, Turing Award, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, and IEEE John von Neumann Medal. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Philosophical Society. His field of work focused on informatics and he had an Erdős number of 8.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Medieval Battle and Tournament Standards
- How Straight Men Are (Secrets of Their Behavior and Psyche)
- Observations on jaundice
- Programming languages and their compilers
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Charlotte
- Place of death
- Valhalla
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Duke University
- Employer
- New York University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- informatics
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- date of birth
- 1925-05-30
- date of death
- 2002-07-16
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- Erdős number
- 8
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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