Lambert Meertens
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'''Lambert Meertens''' is a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] computer scientist and professor.
In the 1960s, Meertens applied [[affix grammar]]s to the description and composition of music, and obtained a special prize from the jury at the 1968 [[IFIP]] Congress in [[Edinburgh]] for his computer-generated string quartet, "Quartet No. 1 in C Major for 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello" based on the first non-context-free affix grammar.<ref>{{citation |last=Kassler |first=Michael |year=1969 |title=Report from Edinburgh |periodical=Perspectives of New Music |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=175–177}}.</ref> The string quartet was published as ''Mathematical Centre Report MR 96'' in 1968.
Meertens was one of the editors of the Revised [[Algol68]] Report.
He was the originator and one of the designers of the [[ABC programming language]].
He was chairman of the Dutch [[Pacifist Socialist Party]] (PSP) from 1975 until 1981.
He was co-designer of the [[Bird-Meertens Formalism]].
He is chair of [[IFIP Working Group 2.1]] on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi.
His original work was at the [[National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science|CWI]] in [[Amsterdam]], [[The Netherlands]] (originally called the Mathematical Centre).
He was later researcher at the [[Kestrel Institute]] in [[Palo Alto]], [[United States]].
He is professor at [[Utrecht University]], [[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]], The Netherlands.
Meertens has an [[Erdős number]] of 3.
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==External links==
*[http://www.kestrel.edu/home/people/meertens/ Lambert Meertens' home page at Kestrel]
*[http://www.cs.uu.nl/staff/lambert.html Lambert Meertens' home page at Utrecht University]
*[http://www.kestrel.edu/home/people/meertens/publications/ List of Publications]
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