11 Facts About Eugene McDonnell

Eugene McDonnell was a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School.

Eugene McDonnell was awarded a First Year Graduate Fellowship to Harvard University, where he studied comparative literature, particularly Dante's Divine Comedy.

Eugene McDonnell holds "Information Transfer Control System" allowing communication between two users.

At IBM, McDonnell devised the notation for the signum and circle functions in APL, designed the complex floor function, and proposed the extension of or and and to GCD and LCM.

Eugene McDonnell was the publisher of the APL Press, producing "A Source Book in APL" and "APL Quote Quad, the Early Years".

Eugene McDonnell was the editor and principal contributor of the Recreational APL column in APL Quote-Quad for many years.

Eugene McDonnell wrote dozens of the "At Play with J" columns in Vector, the journal of the British APL Association.

Eugene McDonnell contributed to Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

Eugene McDonnell was a member of the Jane Austen Society of North America, and gave a talk "Classical Persuasion" at the JASNA meeting at Lake Louise in 1993.

Eugene McDonnell was active in the Bay area Jane Austen group, and wrote a topical index to the Dierdre Le Faye edition of Austen's letters, which can be seen at the Republic of Pemberley website.

Eugene McDonnell died peacefully at his home in Palo Alto on August 17,2010.