Daniel Ingalls

Name: Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr.

Born: 1944

Computer-related contributions

• Pioneer of object-oriented computer programming and the principal architect, designer, and implementer of five generations of Smalltalk environments.
• Known for his work on bit blitting, pop-up menus, the Fabrik visual programming language, and the Lively Kernel.

Honors and awards

• ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (1984).
• ACM Software Systems Award (1987).

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• Grace Hopper
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