John Backus in His Own Words

The reluctant genius of the IBM 704 — his 2006 Computer History Museum oral history, his own recollections of 1950s programming, the 1977 Turing interview and his late FL lectures.

Playlist by @birth_of_fortran

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Oral History of John Backus — Computer History Museum
2. Programming in America in the 1950s – Some Personal Impressions by John Backus — Computer History Museum
3. John Backus, 1977 ACM Turing Award Recipient — Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
4. John Backus: Function Level Programming and the FL Language 1987 — Arthur Vard
5. Backus on functional programming. — Turing Awardee Clips
6. Backus describes the IBM SSEC. — Turing Awardee Clips
7. Feigenbaum on working with Herb Simon and John Backus — Turing Awardee Clips
8. John Backus Group Meeting - IBM Research - 5 July 1989 — Mary Van Deusen FanVids
9. 7th Session of Turingg100 | Life and Work of Dr. John Backus | Dr. Abhijat Vichare — Persistent Systems
10. 1977 - John Backus — 15292-Spring2014