Speech Regarding JOVIAL Development: Real-Audio Format (56K Streaming) MPEG Format

JOVIAL stands for "Jules Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language". The JOVIAL language was specifically developed for military aircraft avionics using the Military Standard (MIL-STD) 1750A processor. Moreover, the JOVIAL software language was the Air Force's standard (MIL-STD-1589) for embedded systems during the late '70s and early '80s when the majority of the Air Force's fielded weapon systems were developed. The USAF JOVIAL Integrated Tool Set (ITS) Program Office assists organizations with the reuse of their proven JOVIAL software by rehosting and retargeting the software to newer, more modern computer platforms and environments.

While attending Graduate School at Columbia University, Jules Schwartz became acquainted with some early computing devices at T. J. Watson Center in New York. He pined RAND Corporation in 1954 where he worked on the JOHNNIAC Computer, primarily in the development of utilities and on the IBM 701, where major work was on the PACT Compiler (one of the early high-level language efforts). He joined the SAGE System development at Lincoln Laboratory in late 1955, where his major contribution was to the Lincoln Utility System. After SDC was split off from RAND, he became involved with various system efforts, which eventually led to language work and the development of JOVIAL.

After JOVIAL, beginning in the early 1960s, he became responsible for a wide variety of projects, including early time-sharing systems, Data Base Management, continued lanyage efforts, and other activities. By the end of the 1960s, he was the Director of Tech- nology at SDC.

In 1970, he joined CSC, where his primary responsibilities have been consulting, managing, auditing, and working on a variety of commercial and Government Systems. In the process, he has been responsible for design of several general and special-purpose languages.


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