[SCC_Active_Members] FW: Doug Ross - Obit

[Gordon Bell]

Doug gave us one of the ash trays that NC first made as a demo.
It should be in the collection.
g

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From: scc_active-bounces at computerhistory.org [mailto:scc_active-bounces at computerhistory.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 6:17 PM
To: skyvis at skyvis.best.vwh.net
Cc: scc_active at computerhistory.org
Subject: Re: [SCC_Active_Members] FW: Doug Ross - Obit

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


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