Douglas Taylor Ross | |
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| Born | December 21, 1929 China |
| Died | January 31, 2007 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Oberlin College (B.Sc., 1951) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (M.Sc., 1954) |
| Known for | Automatically Programmed Tools (APT) Computer-aided design structured analysis and design technique ALGOL X |
| Awards | Joseph Marie Jacquard Memorial Award Distinguished Contributions Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers Honorary Engineer of the Year Award, San Fernando Valley Engineer's Council |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) SofTech, Inc. |
| Thesis | Computational Techniques for Fourier Transformation (1954) |
Douglas Taylor "Doug" Ross (21 December 1929 – 31 January 2007) was an American computer scientist pioneer, and chairman of SofTech, Inc.[1] He is most famous for originating the term CAD for computer-aided design, and is considered to be the father of Automatically Programmed Tools (APT), a programming language to drive numerical control in manufacturing. His later work focused on a pseudophilosophy he developed and named Plex.