Harold Lawson

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Born1937 (1937)
Died2019 (aged 8182)
OccupationSoftware engineer
KnownforInvention of the pointer in high-level programming languages (1964)
Harold Lawson
Harold Lawson in 2017
Born1937 (1937)
Died2019 (aged 8182)
OccupationSoftware engineer
Known forInvention 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.

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