BNF - Backus-Naur Form       

Programming Languages Accomplishment | 1960

IBM researchers: John Backus (IBM), Peter Naur

Where the work was done: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

What we accomplished: Excerpted from Wikipedia: Backus-Naur Form is "one of the two main notation techniques for context-free grammars, often used to describe the syntax of languages used in computing."

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