Hal Abelson

He is the co-author of the book App Inventor with David Wolber Ellen Spertus and Liz Looney publiHal Abelsond by O'Reilly Media in 2011. Abelson is also the winner of the 1995 Taylor L. This work through the textbook of the same name videotapes of their lectures and the availability on personal computers of the Scheme dialect of Lisp (used in teaching the course) has had a worldwide impact on university computer-science education.

Abelson holds an A. degree in mathematics from MIT under the tutelage of mathematician Dennis Sullivan. degree from Princeton University and obtained a Ph.