David Ungar, Date of Birth

    

David Ungar

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1954

Profession: computer scientist, author, researcher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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About David Ungar

  • David Michael Ungar, an American computer scientist, co-created the Self programming language with Randall Smith.
  • The SELF development environment's animated user experience was described in the paper Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface co-written with Bay-Wei Chang, which won a lasting impact award at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2004. Ungar graduated as a doctor of philosophy in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985.
  • His doctoral advisor was David Patterson and his dissertation was entitled The Design and Evaluation of a High-Performance Smalltalk System; it won the 1986 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
  • He was an assistant professor at Stanford University, Dept.
  • of Electrical Engineering, Computer Systems Lab, where he taught programming languages and computer architecture, from 1985 to 1990. In 1991, he joined Sun Microsystems and became a distinguished engineer.
  • In 2006 he was recognized as a Distinguished Engineer by the Association for Computing Machinery and in 2010 a Fellow. In 2007, he joined IBM Research, where he is currently a member of the Dynamic Optimization Group.
  • Ungar holds 20 US patents. In 2006 the 1987 Self paper, coauthored by Ungar and Randall B.
  • Smith, was selected as one of the three most influential OOPSLA papers presented between 1986 and 1996. Self was also one influence on the design of the JavaScript programming language.
  • Ungar's 1984 paper, Generation Scavenging: A Non-disruptive High Performance Storage Reclamation Algorithm, which introduced generational garbage collection, won a Retrospective ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award in 2008.Dave Ungar was awarded the Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize in 2009.

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