Jim Brown (Computer Scientist)

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James A. Brown was manager of the group within IBM responsible for the APL2 program product. APL2 was first available on IBM mainframes in 1980, and was later available under Linux, Unix, and Windows.

James A. Brown was the 1983 recipient of the Iverson Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.

Brown was later a founder of Smart Arrays and has held a senior position in the company for many years.