[SCC_Active_Members] FW: Doug Ross - Obit

[skyvis at skyvis.best.vwh.net]

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> DOUG ROSS	 DOUG ROSS 	
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> By Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff  |  February 10, 2007 
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> While still in high school, Doug Ross performed a full assembly program of
> music he had composed. By his late 20s, he had developed a key computer
> language and coined the term computer-assisted design. A decade later, he
> taught MIT's first graduate course in software engineering. Perhaps not
> surprisingly, he occasionally thought daily tasks lacked sufficient
> challenge. 
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> Mr. Ross, who created APT, the automatically programmed tool computer
> language, died Jan. 31 at his home in the Brookhaven at Lexington care

   For those who are interested I have a copy of APT for the 7090. It will
compile under IBSYS under simulator. But I have no idea how to use it.

Rich

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