Guy L. Steele Jr.

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Professor Guy Lewis Steele Jr. PhD
Guy Steele in 2015
Born	(1954-10-02) October 2, 1954 (age 70) Missouri, United States
Other names	Great Quux, GLS
Education	BA, Harvard University, 1975 MS, PhD, MIT, 1977, 1980
Known for	Emacs Programming languages Technical standards
Awards	ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, 1988 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, 2007
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University Tartan Laboratories Thinking Machines Sun Microsystems Oracle Corporation
Doctoral advisor	Gerald Sussman

Guy Lewis Steele Jr. (/stiːl/; born October 2, 1954) is an American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages and technical standards.