Biography:Tom Pittman (computer scientist)
Tom Pittman is an American computer scientist. He was a founding member of the Homebrew Computer Club and known for coauthoring The Art of Compiler Design (1992).[1]
Biography
Pittman received a BA in Math from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966 and a PhD in Computer and Information Science at University of California, Santa Cruz in 1985.[2]
Pittman was a founding member of the Homebrew Computer Club, who created a personal computer based on the low-powered Intel 4004 chip and maintained the Homebrew mailing list. In two months, he wrote a Tiny BASIC interpreter for the Motorola 6800, selling it for only five dollars.[3]
He and James Peters coauthored The Art of Compiler Design (1992), an important introductory textbook to compiler and interpreter design.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pittman, Thomas; Peters, James F. (1992) (in en). The Art of Compiler Design: Theory and Practice. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-048190-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=W6xQAAAAMAAJ.
- ↑ "Pittman Bio". http://www.ittybittycomputers.com/Bio.html.
- ↑ Levy, Steven (19 May 2010) (in en). Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". pp. 196–200. ISBN 978-1-4493-9380-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=JwKHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA196.
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