John Backus was a US mathematician, born in 1924. He didn't invent the computer, but he did develop FORTRAN, a computer language. For that and for other achievements in computer programming, he received the Turing Award in 1977.
John Warner Backus of IBM, FORTRAN.
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John Backus died on 2007-03-17.
John Backus - acoustician - was born in 1911.
John Backus - acoustician - died in 1988.
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John C. Backus has written: 'An historical discourse'
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he invented floppy diskes he was a computer person he founded a old computer company and was a computer enginer.
John Backus and IBM :))
He invented the first electro digital computer
the person who invented the 1st personal computer was Steve wozniak. he invented the apple computer.