In 2007 Wulf was awarded the honor of delivering the prestigious Charles P. In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the ACM. He served on the Council of the ACM, on the board of directors of CRDF Global, and was a reviewing editor of Science. He chaired the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council from 1992 to 1996. Wulf served as president of the National Academy of Engineering from 1996 to 2007. Jones, Wulf was a founder and vice president of Tartan Laboratories, a compiler technology company, in 1981.

In 1970, while at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), he designed the BLISS programming language and developed a groundbreaking optimizing compiler for it.įrom 1971 to 1975, as part of CMUs C.mmp project, he worked on an operating system (OS) microkernel named Hydra which is capability-based, object-oriented, and designed to support a wide range of possible OSs to run on it. He then achieved the first Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in computer science from the University of Virginia in 1968. William Allan Wulf (Decem– March 10, 2023) was an American computer scientist notable for his work in programming languages and compilers.īorn in Chicago, Wulf attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, receiving a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in engineering physics in 1961 and an Master of Science (M.S.) in electrical engineering in 1963. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (B.S., 1961 M.S., 1963)īLISS programming language, optimizing compiler

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