Guy Lewis Steele, Jr., a.k.a. "The Great Quux," authored three books: Common Lisp: The Language; C: A Reference Manual; and The High Performance Fortran Handbook (MIT Press). He was editor of The Hacker's Dictionary, which has since been revised as The New Hacker's Dictionary, edited by Eric Raymond with introduction and illustrations by Guy Steele (MIT Press). He is a co-creator of the Scheme programming language. MIT Press Books The MIT Press is a university publisher affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The Jargon File is a glossary of hacker slang. ... Eric S. Raymond Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957) (often referred to by his initials, ESR) is the author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and the present maintainer of the Jargon File (also known as The New Hackers Dictionary). Though the Jargon File established his original reputation... The Knights of the Lambda Calculus recursive emblem celebrates Schemes theoretical foundation, the lambda calculus. ...

As a senior scientist at supercomputer company Thinking Machines, he helped to define and promote a parallel version of Lisp called *Lisp (Star Lisp). In 1994 he joined Sun Microsystems and was invited by Bill Joy to become a member of the Java team after the language had been designed, since he had a track record of writing good specifications for existing languages. In addition to the specifications of the Java programming language, at Sun Microsystems Guy Steele is responsible for research in parallel algorithms, implementation strategies, and architectural and software support. In 2005, Steele began leading a team of researchers at Sun developing a new programming language named Fortress, a high-performance language designed to obsolete Fortran. Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1982 by W. Daniel Hillis and Sheryl Handler to turn Hilliss doctoral work at MIT on parallel computing architectures into a commercial product called the Connection Machine. ... Lisp is a reflective, multi-paradigm programming language with a long history. ... The *Lisp (StarLisp) programming language was conceived of in 1985 by Cliff Lasser and Steve Omohondro, Thinking Machines Corporation employees, as a way of providing an efficient yet high-level language for programming the nascent Connection Machine. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... William N. Joy (born 1954), commonly known as Bill Joy, co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. ... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed initially by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fortress is a draft specification for a new programming language currently developed by Sun Microsystems as part of a DARPA-funded supercomputing initiative. ... Fortran (also FORTRAN) is a statically typed, compiled (sometimes interpreted), imperative, computer programming language originally developed in the 1950s and still heavily used for scientific computing and numerical computation half a century later. ...

Guy Steele has published more than two dozen papers on the subject of the Lisp language and its implementation (the Lambda Papers). One of his most notable contributions is the design of the programming language Scheme (together with Gerald Sussman). He also designed the original command set of Emacs and was the first one to port TeX (from WAITS to ITS). He has published papers on other subjects, including compilers, parallel processing, and constraint languages. One song he composed has been published in Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM) ("The Telnet Song," April 1984). Lambda the Ultimate Papers were written by Gerald Jay Sussman and Guy Steele Jr. ... The Knights of the Lambda Calculus recursive emblem celebrates Schemes theoretical foundation, the lambda calculus. ... Gerald Jay Sussman is the Matsushita Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). ... The GNU Emacs interface, running in a graphical environment. ... The TeX mascot, by Duane Bibby TEX, written as TeX in plain text, is a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth. ... WAITS was a heavily modified variant of the Digital Equipment Corporations TOPS-10 operating system for the PDP-10 mainframe computer, used at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) up until 1990; the mainframe computer it ran on also went by the name of SAIL. There was never an... ITS, the Incompatible Timesharing System, was an early, revolutionary, and influential MIT time-sharing operating system; it was developed principally by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, with some help from Project MAC. ITS development was initiated in the late 1960s by those (notably the majority of the AI Lab... CACM is an acronym that may stand for: California Association of Community Managers Inc. ...

He has served on accredited standards committees X3J11 (the C language) and X3J3 (Fortran) and is currently chairman of X3J13 (Common Lisp). He was also a member of the IEEE committee that produced the IEEE Standard for the Scheme Programming Language, IEEE Std 1178-1990. He represents Sun Microsystems in the High Performance Fortran Forum, which produced the High Performance Fortran specification in May, 1993. The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the original edition that served for many years as an informal specification of the language The C programming language is a standardized imperative computer programming language developed in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie for use on the Unix operating system. ... X3J13 is the name of the Ansi Common Lisp standard technical committee. ... The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (pronounced as eye-triple-ee) is an international non-profit, professional organization incorporated in the State of New York, United States. ...

Guy Steele graduated from the prestigious Boston Latin School in 1972 and received an BA from Harvard (1975) and an MS and Ph.D. from MIT in Computer Science (1977, 1980). Prior to joining Thinking Machines, he was an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts three or four years. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Computer Science Open Directory Project: Computer Science Downloadable Science and Computer Science books Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Belief that title science in computer science is inappropriate Categories: ‪Wikipedia articles needing priority cleanup‬ | ‪Computer science‬ ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ...

In 1988 he received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. He was named an ACM Fellow in 1994. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the worlds first scientific and educational computing society. ... Although many awards have added Grace Hoppers name to them since her death in 1992, the original Grace Murray Hopper Awards have been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1971. ... The ACM Fellows Program was established by Council of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1993 to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM. There are presently about 500 Fellows out... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

He was born in Missouri. State nickname: The Show Me State Other U.S. States Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City (largest metropolitan area is Saint Louis) Governor Matt Blunt (R) Senators Kit Bond (R) Jim Talent (R) Official language(s) English Area 69,709 mi²; 180,693 km² (21st)  - Land 68,898 mi...

External link

• Sun biographical page for Steele
• The Telnet song