[SCC_Active_Members] FW: Doug Ross - Obit

[Al Kossow]

skyvis at skyvis.best.vwh.net wrote:
>>
>> DOUG ROSS	 DOUG ROSS 	
>>
>> By Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff  |  February 10, 2007 
>>
>>
>> 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. 
>>
>>
>> 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
> 

There is a scan of two MIT Tech reports that Mr. Ross wrote on APT here:

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/whirlwind/apt