Harold Lawson
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Born1937
Died2019 (aged 81–82)
OccupationSoftware engineer
KnownforInvention of the pointer in high-level programming languages (1964)
Harold Lawson | |
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Harold Lawson in 2017 | |
| Born | 1937 |
| Died | 2019 (aged 81–82) |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Known for | Invention of the pointer in high-level programming languages (1964) |
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).[1][2] In 2000, Lawson was presented the Computer Pioneer Award by the IEEE[3] for his invention.