• 1925 February 13
    (b.) -
    2009
    (d.)

Bio/Description

recognized as the chief architect of the Burroughs B5000 and other computers such as the B1700, and a co-inventor of dataflow. Barton's thinking has been broadly influential. As one example, Barton influenced the systems and higher level computer language thinking of Alan Kay who went on to further develop object-oriented programming, co-design Smalltalk, and develop concepts key to modern GUI systems built into the Macintosh and later Microsoft Windows.
  • Date of Birth:

    1925 February 13
  • Date of Death:

    2009
  • Gender:

    Male
  • Noted For:

    Chief architect of the Burroughs B5000
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