DeathJune 302015

Robert Dewar

Robert Dewar, English-American computer scientist and academic (born 1945)

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When
Tuesday, June 30 201511 years ago
Category
DeathA notable person who died on this day.
Era
21st century · 2010s
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Robert Dewar

Who they were

Robert Berriedale Keith Dewar was an American computer scientist and educator. He helped to develop programming languages and compilers and was an outspoken advocate of freely licensed open-source software. He was a cofounder, CEO, and president of the AdaCore software company. He was also an enthusiastic amateur performer and musician, especially with the Village Light Opera Group in New York City.

Early life

Early life and education Dewar was born in Oxford , England, one of two sons of the theoretical chemist Michael J. S. Dewar and Mary Dewar, née Williamson (d. 1994), a historian and scholar of English Tudor history. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1959, he moved with his parents from England to Chicago, Illinois , when his father accepted a teaching job at the University of Chicago . [ 3 ] Dewar attended the University of Chicago , earning a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in 1964,

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