UCSD Pascal Reunion Symposium Held October 22, 2004

The UCSD Pascal Reunion Symposium celebrated the accomplishments of Professor Emeritus Kenneth Bowles and his team of graduate and undergraduate students. In the mid-1970s, this team modified the original Pascal language and created a portable programming language and operating system that for the first time made microprocessors accessible to the masses. The team filled thousands of requests for copies of the p-system, and by the early 1980s, UCSD Pascal was being used as a teaching tool by universities worldwide and was implemented by major corporations such as Apple and IBM. Many of the concepts developed through UCSD Pascal are still in use today in languages such as Java and Ada.

 

Ken Bowles
Professor Emeritus, Computer Science and Engineering

Stephen Franklin
Assistant Director, Network and Academic Computing Services, UC Irvine and Lecturer

 

 

Henrik Wann Jensen
Assoc. Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Richard Kaufmann '78
Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard

 

 

Mark Overgaard '78
President, Pigeon Point Systems

Mohan Patur
Professor and Chair, Computer Science and Engineering

 

 

Stefan Savage
Assistant Professor , Computer Science and Engineering

Frieder Seible
Dean of the Jacobs School, Professor Structural Engineering

 

 

Roger Sumner '77
President, Beach Software Designs, Inc

John VanZandt '76, '79 '86
President, CEO Consultancy, Inc..

 

 

Lucia Yandell '78, '80
JSF SW Process Lead, Northrop Grumman, ST Radio Systems

Panel Discussion
Panelists: Keith Shillington '78 (pictured), Co-owner, E Street Cafe; Bowles, Franklin, Kaufmann, Overgaard, Sumner, Yandell and VanZandt. Moderated by Stefan Savage