Harold Lawson
(1937-2019)
Swedish engineer
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Harold W. "Bud" Lawson (1937–2019) was a software engineer, computer architect and systems engineer. Lawson is credited with the 1964 invention of the pointer in high-level programming languages (with "a lot of comments" from Donald Knuth and Douglas McIlroy). In 2000, Lawson was presented the Computer Pioneer Award by the IEEE for his invention.
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13 December 1937 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| Died |
10 June 2019 (aged 81)
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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