Tom Pittman (computer scientist)

'''Tom Pittman''' is an American computer scientist. He was a founding member of the Homebrew Computer Club and known for coauthoring ''The Art of Compiler Design'' (1992).<ref name="art">{{cite book |last1=Pittman |first1=Thomas |last2=Peters |first2=James F. |title=The Art of Compiler Design: Theory and Practice |date=1992 |publisher=Prentice Hall |isbn=978-0-13-048190-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W6xQAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref>

== Biography == Pittman received a BA in Math from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966 and a PhD in Computer and Information Science at University of California, Santa Cruz in 1985.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pittman Bio |url=http://www.ittybittycomputers.com/Bio.html |website=Itty Bitty Computers |access-date=15 August 2022}}</ref>

Pittman was a founding member of the Homebrew Computer Club, who created a personal computer based on the low-powered Intel 4004 chip and maintained the Homebrew mailing list. In two months, he wrote a Tiny BASIC interpreter for the Motorola 6800, selling it for only five dollars.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Levy |first1=Steven |title=Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition |date=19 May 2010 |publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc. |isbn=978-1-4493-9380-9 |pages=196–200 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JwKHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA196 |language=en}}</ref>

He and James Peters coauthored ''The Art of Compiler Design'' (1992), an important introductory textbook to compiler and interpreter design.<ref name="art"/>

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== External links == * {{Official website}}

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