Brad Cox
Brad J. Cox (May 2, 1944 – January 2, 2021)software componentry.
Biography
Cox received his Bachelor of Science Degree in
Organic Chemistry and Mathematics from Furman University,[2]
and his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematical Biology at the University of Chicago.[3]
Among his first known software projects, he wrote a PDP-8 program for simulating clusters of neurons.
[4]
He worked at the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute before moving into the software profession.[5]
Although Cox invented his own programming language,
software components, and he regarded languages as mere tools for building and combining parts of software.[6]
Stepstone company was housed in the late 1980s, founded by Brad Cox and Tom Love for releasing the Objective-C
programming languageCox was also an
Stepstone company together with Tom Love, established to release the first Objective-C implementation. Stepstone folded in 1994 and in April 1995, NeXT acquired the Objective-C trademark and rights from Stepstone.[7] At the same time, Stepstone licensed back from NeXT the right to continue selling their Objective-C based products. As Apple Computer acquired NeXT a year later, they now hold the rights to Objective-C. Stepstone appears to have gone out of business in the early 2000s.[8]
Awards
- Online course "Taming the Electronic Frontier" won a Paul Allen Distance Education Award ($25,000) in 1998.[9][10]
Notes
- ^ "Dr. Brad J. Cox Ph.D. Obituary". legacy.com. January 2, 2021. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021.
- ^ "(unknown)". Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of Science. 29–32. South Carolina Academy of Science: 79. 1967.
{{cite journal}}: Cite uses generic title (help) - ^ Cox, Brad J. (June 1973). "The potassium diffusion barrier: examined as a mechanism for squid axon adaptation". Univ. of Chicago, Department of Chemistry. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011.
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- ^ Bézivin, Jean, ed. (November 13–15, 1989). "Contributors". TOOLS '89: Technology of object-oriented languages and systems : Proceedings, CNIT Paris, La Défence, France, November 13-15, 1989. TOOLS: technology of object-oriented languages and systems. Paris: CNIT, La Défence. p. 11.
- ^ "Belaboring the Obvious: Masterminds of Programming Book". March 27, 2009.
- S2CID 218518131.
- ^ "About Objective-C". Apple Inc. September 17, 2015. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-59904-305-0.
- ISBN 978-0-7872-4980-9.
Books
- Object Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach. Addison Wesley. 1991. ISBN 0-201-54834-8.
- Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier. Addison Wesley. 1996. ISBN 0-201-50208-9.
External links
- Belaboring the Obvious - personal blog
- Virtual School (historical)
- Hutchinson, James (June 17, 2010). "The A to Z of programming languages: Objective-C". Computerworld. Archived from the original on May 13, 2011. Retrieved March 9, 2011.
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