Isaac Nassi

Isaac "Ike" Nassi is an Executive Vice President at SAP AG. He holds responsibility for SAP Research for the Americas and China and is based out of SAP's Palo Alto location. He is probably best known for creating (with Ben Shneiderman) the highly influential Nassi-Shneiderman diagram notation. [Nassi, I.; Shneiderman, B.: " [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=953349.953350&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=71486896 Flowchart techniques for structured programming] ", ACM SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 8 No. 8, August 1973.] He also helped design the Ada programming language.

Prior to work at SAP, he co-founded the wireless mesh company Firetide and was CTO (chief technology officer) of InfoGear, before it was acquired by Cisco Systems. After the acquisition, he was the director of engineering at Cisco. He was also a senior vice president at Apple Computer and an early employee at Encore Computer Corporation.

Nassi is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery.

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External links

* [http://www.nassi.com/ike.html Nassi.com] - Ike Nassi's homepage
* [http://www.sap.com/about/company/research/centers/paloalto.epx SAP Research at SAP Labs LLC] - Ike Nassi at SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC