Jean Ichbiah
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Jean David Ichbiah (25 March 1940 – 26 January 2007)
Early life
Ichbiah was a descendant of Greek and Turkish Jews[1][2] from Thessaloniki who emigrated to France.[3]
Career
In 1996 fund the Company
IFIP WG 2.4 on Systems Implementation Languages.[5]
He then joined
Louveciennes, France, becoming a member of the Programming Research division.[1] Among other projects he worked on the rewrite of the Siris 7 operating system into Siris 8
.
Ichbiah's team submitted a language design labelled "Green" to a competition to choose the
US Army, and others. He later moved to the Waltham, Massachusetts
subsidiary of Alsys.
In the 1990s, Ichbiah designed the keyboard layout
text entry software for PDAs and tablet PCs, as well as text-entry software for medical transcription
on PCs.
Awards and honors
In 1979, Jean Ichbiah was designated a chevalier (knight) of the
French Legion of Honour[1] and a correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences. He received a Certificate of Distinguished Service from the United States Department of Defense
for his work on Ada.
Death
Jean Ichbiah died from complications of a brain tumor on January 26, 2007.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Jean Ichbiah (1940–2007)", Ada Information Clearinghouse, 2007 AdaIC.
- ^ Colmerauer, Alain (July 2007). "In memoriam, Jean ICHBIAH" (in French). Archived from the original on 2015-05-03. Retrieved 2015-04-22.
- ^ Jean Ichbiah. "Disappointed by lack of localization/customization capabilities". Retrieved 2007-02-13.
...my mother was born in Saloniki
- ^ "Software at Bull". Archived from the original on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
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 2007-02-13.
- Usenet: [email protected]. Retrieved 31 January 2007.
Further reading
- Jean Ichbiah (October 1984). "Ada: Past, Present, Future — An Interview with Jean Ichbiah, the Principal Designer of Ada". S2CID 11152781.
External links
- Jean Ichbiah (1940-2007), 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, as published in SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
- Jean Ichbiah, 66; designed landmark computer language (Boston Globe)
- Ada inventor Jean Ichbiah dies (Computerworld)
- Member of the French Academy of Sciences (in French)
- Ada 83 designer Jean Ichbiah dies, Ada User's Journal, Ada-Europe 2007
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