TY  - GEN
AU  - Backus,John W.
TI  - John W. Backus papers,
KW  - Backus, John W.,
KW  - International Business Machines Corporation
KW  - Ballistic missile defenses
KW  - Calculators
KW  - Computers
KW  - FORTRAN (Computer program language)
KW  - Programming languages (Electronic computers)
KW  - Computer scientists
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, reports, notes, slides, photographs, and other papers relating to Backus's work as a computer scientist at IBM on programming languages, particularly FORTRAN.  Includes material relating to Backus's early work on the IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator and Backus-Naur Form (BNF).  Documents Backus's pursuit as IBM Fellow, 1963-1991, of his own research projects relating to mathematical theories of programming and the development of functional programming languages.  Also includes files pertaining to Backus's political activism as a member of Computer Professionals Against ABM in the early 1970s and as an opponent of the strategic defense initiative in the 1980s
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007001
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007001.3
ER  -