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Educators, generals, dieticians, psychologists, and parents program. Armies, students, and some
societies are programmed. An assault on large problems employs a succession of programs,
most of which spring into existence en route. These programs are rife with issues that appear to
be particular to the problem at hand. To appreciate programming as an intellectual activity in
its own right you must turn to computer programming; you must read and write computer
programs -- many of them. It doesn't matter much what the programs are about or what
applications they serve. What does matter is how well they perform and how smoothly they fit
with other programs in the creation of still greater programs. The programmer must seek both
perfection of part and adequacy of collection. In this book the use of ``program'' is focused on
the creation, execution, and study of programs written in a dialect of Lisp for execution on a
digital computer. Using Lisp we restrict or limit not what we may program, but only the
notation for our program descriptions.

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Harold Abelson

Nationality - American

Harold Abelson (born April 26, 1947) is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the M...

assachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a founding director of both Creative Commons^[5] and the Free Software Foundation, creator of the MIT App Inventor platform, and co-author of the widely-used textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, sometimes also referred to as "the wizard book."

He directed the first implementation of the language Logo for the Apple II, which made the language widely available on personal computers starting 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 (called by the course number, 6.001), a subject organized around the idea 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 Abelson and other MIT faculty.

Abelson led an internal investigation of MIT's choices and role in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which concluded that MIT did nothing wrong legally, but recommended that MIT consider changing some of its internal policies.

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