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, ...

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 ...

The dark marks on the linoleum are the remnants of where, some 30 years ago, a noisy keypunch stood. I spent hours thumping at its keyboard, punching out lines of Fortran computer programs onto cards ...

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 ...