程序员追星 - Hal Abelson

Name Hal Abelson
Role Professor
Doctoral advisor Dennis Sullivan
Notable students Mitchel Resnick

Name Hal Abelson
Role Professor
Doctoral advisor Dennis Sullivan
Notable students Mitchel Resnick
Hal Abelson
Born April 26, 1947 (age 68) (1947-04-26)
Fields computer science, ethics, law, methodology, amorphous computing
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma mater Princeton UniversityMIT
Thesis Topologically Distinct Conjugate-Varieties with Finite Fundamental-Group (1973)
Doctoral students Elizabeth Bradley, Daniel Coore, Michael Eisenberg, Margaret Fleck, Radhika Nagpal, Mitchel Resnick, Luis Rodriguez, Jr., Guillermo Rozas, Latanya Sweeney, Kurt VanLehn, Ron Weiss, Kenneth Yip, Feng Zhao
Notable awards Bose Award (MIT School of Engineering, 1992)Taylor L. Booth Education Award (IEEE-CS, 1995)SIGCSE 2012 Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education (ACM, 2012)
Known for Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, Free Software Foundation, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Education Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Books Structure and Interpreta, Blown to Bits: Your Life - Liber, Turtle Geometry, Logo for the Macintosh, LOGO for the Apple II

Harold “Hal” Abelson (born April 26, 1947) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a fellow of the IEEE, and a founding director of both Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation.

He directed the first implementation of Logo for the Apple II, which made the language widely available on personal computers beginning in 1981; and published a widely selling book on Logo in 1982. Together with Gerald Jay Sussman, Abelson developed MIT’s introductory computer science subject, The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (aka 6.001), a subject organized around the notion that a computer language is primarily a formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology, rather than just a way to get a computer to perform operations. Abelson and Sussman also cooperate in codirecting the MIT Project on Mathematics and Computation. The MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) project was spearheaded by Hal Abelson and other MIT faculty.