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John Cocke

American mathematician and computer scientist
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John Cocke (born May 30, 1925, Charlotte, N.C., U.S.—died July 16, 2002, Valhalla, N.Y.) was an American mathematician and computer scientist and winner of the 1984 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for “significant contributions in the design and theory of compilers, the architecture of large systems and the development of reduced instruction set computers (RISC); for discovering and systematizing many fundamental transformations now used in optimizing compilers including reduction of operator...

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