Robert S. Barton
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| Born | February 13, 1925 New Britain, Connecticut |
| Died | January 28, 2009 (aged 83) Portland, Oregon |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | USA |
| Fields | mathematics |
| Institutions | Innovations & Inventions |
| Alma mater |
State University of Iowa |
| Known for | stack architecture |
| Influences | Irving Copi |
| Influenced |
Alan Ashton |
| Notable awards |
IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award |
State University of Iowa
B.A. (Mathematics) 1948
Alan Ashton
Duane Call
Edwin Catmull
James H. Clark
Henri Gouraud
Alan Kay
Bui Tuong Phong
IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award
IEEE-ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award (first recipient)
Robert Stanley "Bob" Barton (February 13, 1925 – January 28, 2009) was recognized as the chief architect of the Burroughs B5000 and other computers such as the B1700, and a co-inventor of dataflow. Barton's thinking has been broadly influential. As one example, Barton influenced the systems and higher-level computer language thinking of Alan Kay who went on to further develop object-oriented programming, co-design Smalltalk, and develop concepts key to modern GUI systems built into the Macintosh and later Microsoft Windows.
Barton designed machines at a more abstract level, not tied to the technology constraints of the time. He employed high-level languages and a stack machine in his design of the Burroughs Corporation B5000 computer. Barton's B5000 design survives in the modern Unisys Burroughs MCP. His work with stack architectures was the first implementation in a mainframe computer. Hewlett-Packard would later use the stack architecture in its HP 3000 computers, and in HP calculators with Reverse Polish Notation (RPN).
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