Person in history
Robert Dewar
Robert Dewar, English-American computer scientist and academic (born 1945)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2015 · June 30
Their story
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,
Why this date
Robert Dewar appears on our June 30 calendar for 2015 as a death entry.
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Questions about Robert Dewar
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June 30 2015.
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