MIT
Carl E. Hewitt is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Hewitt is known for his design of Planner, which was the first programming language based on procedural plans that were invoked using pattern-directed invocation from assertions and goals. He is also known for his work on the Actor model of concurrent computation, which influenced the development of the Scheme programming language and the pi calculus, and served as an inspiration for several other programming languages. His publications include contributions in the areas of open information systems, multi-agent systems, logic programming, paraconsistent logic, and cloud computing.
