John Backus, known as the father of the Fortran computer programming language that made computers more accessible, died Saturday in Ashland, Ore., according to the International Business Machines Corp ...

The National Labs are using a new tool to integrate the 1950s-era Fortran computer language into their supercomputing infrastructure. The Fortran language, a relic of the punchcard era of programming, ...

Fortran is the oldest commercial programming language, designed at IBM in the 1950s. And even though, for years, programmers have been predicting its demise, 64 years later it's still kicking, with ...

John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, has died. He was 82. Backus died ...

John Backus: John Backus, known as the father of the Fortran computer-programming language that made computers more accessible, and a longtime IBM employee, died last Saturday in Ashland, Oregon. He ...

Back in the dawn of time, which is four decades ago in computer science and which was before technical computing went mainstream with the advent of Unix workstations and their beefy server cousins, ...

John W. Backus, who assembled and led the IBM team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, which helped open the door to modern computing, died Saturday at his home in ...