Background
Ginsburg, Seymour was born on December 12, 1927 in Brooklyn. Son of William and Bessie (Setomer) Ginsburg.
("The Concept of a Context-free Language was first introdu...)
"The Concept of a Context-free Language was first introduced by Chomsky in 1959 Ch 3 (Refers to N. Chomsky, 3d listing, in the "References and Related Papers" at the end of the book. The same shorthand form used in the text, for example, Ch 3, precedes the corresponding entry in the "References.") in an attempt to find a reasonable mathematical model of natural languages such as English, French, etc. In the period 1959-1960, several papers developing the theory were written Ch 3, 4; CM; BGS; BPS. In late 1960, it was discovered that the "ALGOL-like" languages, that is, the languages defined by Backus normal form (the metalanguage used to describe the widely publicized programming language ALGOL-60), were identical with the context-free languages. Since then, there has been a flurry of activity in the theoretical development of context-free languages..." from the preface
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Ginsburg, Seymour was born on December 12, 1927 in Brooklyn. Son of William and Bessie (Setomer) Ginsburg.
Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1948; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, 1952; Master of Science, University of Michigan, 1949.
Assistant professor mathematics, U. Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1951-1955; engineer, Northrop Corporation, Hawthorne, California, 1955-1956; senior research engineer, Northrop Corporation, Hawthorne, California, 1956-1959; section head, Hughes Aircraft, Los Angeles, 1959-1960; senior mathematician, System Development Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 1960-1971; Fletcher Jones professor computer science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, since 1966.
("The Concept of a Context-free Language was first introdu...)
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Served with United States Army, 1946-1947. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Member American Mathematics Society, Association Computing Machinery, Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematics Association American.
Children– Diane, David.