Harold Lawson

Lawson is credited with the 1964 invention of the pointer in high-level programming languages (with "a lot of comments" from Donald Knuth and Douglas McIlroy).

[1][2] In 2000, Lawson was presented the Computer Pioneer Award by the IEEE[3] for his invention.

In July, 2010 he published a new book entitled A Journey Through the Systems Landscape (ISBN 978-1-84890-010-3) with College Publications.

The book provides a comprehensive discipline-independent approach to learning to "think" and "act" in terms of systems.

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