John tukey, 85, a retired princeton university statistician who coined the words software and bit. John wilder tukey, one of the most influential statisticians of the last 50 years and a wideranging thinker credited with inventing the word software, died on wednesday in new brunswick, n. The tukey range test, the tukey lambda distribution, the tukey test of additivity, and the teichmuller tukey lemma all bear his name. Brillinger university of california, berkeley as both practicing data analyst and scientific methodologist, john w. B this article has been rated as bclass on the projects quality scale.
The origins of the term software within the context of computing. In 1957 eisenhower formed the presidents scientific advisory panel psac. A few of these people predate the invention of the digital computer. Tukey made an immense diversity of contributions to science, government and industry.
John wilder tukey, an emeritus princeton professor considered to be one of the most important contributors to modern statistics, died wednesday. The word hardware had been used in the computing context since at least 1947 and it is unlikely that software was not coined until 1958. John wilder tukey was an american mathematician best known for development of the fast. John wilder tukey, american statistician born june 16, 1915, new bedford, mass. This is in contrast to physical hardware, from which the system is built and actually performs the work. His parents left his birthplace, new bedford, massachusetts,for a period but returned to settle there when john was 5. This barcode number lets you verify that youre getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. Fortran, one of the very first higherlevel programming languages, was originally published in 1957. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation. Statistical challenges in the analysis of cosmic microwave background radiation cabella, paolo and marinucci, domenico, annals of applied statistics, 2009. The next year, statistician john tukey coined the word software in an article about. Indeed, tukey is credited with coining the work software, which he first used in print in 1958, and bit.
The term software was first proposed by alan turing and used in this sense by john w. This is a list of computer scientists, people who do work in computer science, in particular researchers and authors some persons notable as programmers are included here because they work in research as well as program. Depois da guerra, voltou a princeton, dividindo seu tempo entre a. Today there may be found in maine tukeys bridge, tukeys road and many tukeys. Computer software, or simply software, is a collection of data or computer instructions that tell the computer how to work. A better way to build software software bar none technologies. John s college, ca mbridge, the light banter among us included how to catch. Synonymous with computer programs, software was first proposed by alan turing and first used by john w. Durante a segunda guerra mundial, tukey trabalhou no fire control research office em conjunto com samuel stanley wilks e william cochran.
Tukey developed many important tools of modern statistics and introduced concepts that were central to the creation of todays. The coordinatebased metaanalysis of neuroimaging data samartsidis, pantelis, montagna, silvia, johnson, timothy d. And a further dig statisticiancoinedthewordsoftware. June 16, 1915 july 26, 2000 was an american mathematician best known for development of the fast fourier transform fft algorithm and box plot. Pronunciation of john tukey with 1 audio pronunciation, 3 translations and more for john tukey. Johns college, ca mbridge, the light banter among us included how to catch. One of his ancestors, another john, came to portland, maine from england in 1744. This seems to be based on a misinterpretation of shapiros 2000 article. John wilder tukey american statistician britannica. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion.
Tukey was born on july 16, 1915, in new bedford, massachusetts. Tukey uc berkeley statistics university of california. O termo software foi usado por primeira vez neste senso por john w. The first published use of the term software offsite link in a computing context is often credited to american statistician john w. The field of statistics has benefited tremendously from his contributions. In computer science and software engineering, computer software is all information processed by computer systems, programs and data. As a chemistturnedtopologistturned statistician, john wilder tukey played a key role in the development and study of statistics in the mid 1900s. A brief history of software development micah yost medium.
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