William A. Martin
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William A. Martin (1938-1981) was a computer scientist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
After graduating from Northwest Classen High School, where he was a state wrestling champion, he attended MIT where received bachelor, master, and PhD degrees in 1960, 1962, and 1967 in electrical engineering. While obtaining those degrees, he worked as a teaching assistant at MIT (beginning in 1960); this enabled him to obtain an associate professorship in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1968 (one year after he received his doctorate). In 1975, he received academic tenure. His research pulled him towards the Project MAC (now called CSAIL), where he researched expert systems and notably worked on MACSYMA and a number of techniques for automatic programming. Later in his life, he switched to the problem of natural language processing.
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- Obituary from Tech Talk
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| NAME | Martin, William A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martin, William; Martin, Bill |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | [Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1981 |
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