Alfred Aho

Alfred Aho (born August 9, 1941) is a Canadian computer scientist best known for his work on programming languages, compilers, and related algorithms, and his textbooks on the art and science of computer programming. Quotes Fundamentally, computer science is a science of abstraction — creating the right model for thinking about a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. Foundations of Computer Science, Chapter 1 by Al Aho and Jeff Ullman Quotes about Alfred Aho Al Aho was in fact an undergraduate at the University of Toronto a year ahead of me, he was a graduate student at Princeton a year ahead of me, he went to Bell Labs a year ahead of me, and we were in essentially almost adjacent offices at that point and he has been variously my boss and of course friend for, at this point creeping up on 60 years. Brian Kernighan Coffee with Brian Kernighan from Computerphile on YouTube External links Category:1941 births Category:Canadian computer scientists Category:Canadian people of Finnish descent Category:Columbia University faculty Category:Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty Category:Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Category:Fellow Members of the IEEE Category:American people of Finnish descent Category:Living people Category:Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni Category:Programming language designers Category:Scientists at Bell Labs Category:Theoretical computer scientists Category:Turing Award laureates Category:University of Toronto alumni Category:People from Timmins Category:Scientists from Ontario Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Category:Canadian textbook writers