James G. Mitchell
| James George Mitchell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 25, 1943 Kitchener, Ontario |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Acorn Computers, Xerox |
| Alma mater | University of Waterloo, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Known for | WATFOR compiler, Mesa programming language |
| Notable awards | J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation |
James George "Jim" Mitchell (born 25 April 1943) is a Canadian computer scientist. He has worked on programming language design and implementation (FORTRAN WATFOR, Mesa, Euclid, C++, Java), interactive programming systems, dynamic interpretation and compilation, document preparation systems, user interface design, distributed transactional file systems, and distributed, object-oriented operating systems. He has also worked on the design of hardware for computer graphics, high-level language execution, and audio input/output.
Mitchell was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada on April 25, 1943. He grew up in Cambridge, Ontario, and graduated with a degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 1966. Mitchell began working with computers in 1962 while a student at the University of Waterloo. He and three other undergraduates developed a fast compiler for the Fortran programming language known as WATFOR ("Waterloo FORTRAN"), for the IBM 7040 computer. The project, initiated by Professor J. Wesley Graham, established Waterloo's early reputation as a centre for software and computer science research by assisting the first generation of computer science majors learn to program. He then graduated with a PhD in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970. His dissertation was titled Conversational programming LCC.
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