Primary Job Title Director of Language Research Primary Organization AdaCore
Location Lexington, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
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S. Tucker Taft is Director of Language Research at AdaCore. Tucker led the Ada 9X language design team, culminating in the February 1995 approval of Ada 95 as the first ISO standardized object-oriented programming language. His specialties include programming language design, compiler implementation, high-integrity software, integrated development
environments, real-time systems, and parallel programming. Since 2001, Tucker has been a member of the ISO Rapporteur Group that developed Ada 2005, and is now finalizing Ada 2012. Most recently Tucker has been designing and implementing the parallel programming language ParaSail. Tucker received an A.B. Summa Cum Laude degree from Harvard University, where he has more recently taught compiler construction and programming language design.
