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Jan Vaumund Garwick (Born 31. July 1916 in Oslo, Died 18. June 1989 in Hemet, California) a Norwegian mathematics and informatiker, famous as "father of informatikkens" in Norway.

Studied in mathematics (1938) at University of Oslo, job he as assistant ( under Gunnar Randers) under Svein Rosseland at Institutt for Teoretisk Astrofysikk (1940-), there he also handled Rosseland's differential analysis. Derpå stepped he in in Norwegian Defence Research Establishment as boss for Norwegian Computing Center(1947), in partial co-operation with Gunnar Randers. He job along with approach to the problems in physics - using Monte Carlo simulation methods - for calculation at operational the diameter for "uran-stavene" Norway's first atomic reactor at Institutt for Energiteknikk, among other reasons in collaboration with it newly qualified Kristen Nygaard ( under Civilian service, 1948).

Garwick worked at NTNF's assortment as matematikkmaskiner.

Language Gargoyle stayed also Warwicks creation (1964), a tool to draw up compiler [8] IN period 1967-69 layer he facts ALGOL 60- based language GPL General Purpose Language, also famous as Garwicks Among friends Language.

Warwick was emigrating at USA (1967) and and continue his work in California and New Mexico.

Publications

 * En fremgangsmåte hvorefter Poincaré-ske rekker kan gjøres hurtigere konvergente., avhandling til cand.real., 44 sider (Universitetet i Oslo, 1938)
 * Note on stellar systems with ellipsoidal velocity-distribution, i Astrophysica Norvegica, 3(49):302-305 (1943)
 * A new method of calculating general perturbations of asteroids and comets, i Astrophysica Norvegica, 3(13):282-299 (1943)
 * A Punched Card Machine Especially Equipped for Scientific Computations, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, 8(47):167-170 (Juli, 1954)
 * Programmer's handbook for the Ferranti Mercury Computer FREDERIC at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (1957). Med Ole-Johan Dahl (1958, 1962)
 * The definition of programming languages by their compilers, i Proc. of Formal Language Description Languages for Computer Programming, Wien (1964)
 * GARGOYLE: a language for compiler writing, Commun. ACM 7(1): 16-20 (1964)
 * Remark on further generalization of ALGOL, Commun. ACM 7(7): 422-423 (1964)
 * Programming Languages: GPL, a truly general purpose language, Commun. ACM 11(9): 634-638 (1968)
 * R69-32 A Universal Syntax-Directed Top-Down Analyzer, i IEEE Trans. Computers, 18(10):964-65 (1968)

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