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Professor Douglas W. Jones, who was a graduate student of Gillies', has said on several occasions that Gillies claimed to have written the world's first assembler program, while working for Von Neumann at Princeton in the early 1950's. If this can be reliably verified, it should be added to the article. —Dominus (talk) 17:41, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I am pretty sure you are confusing the subject of this article with Donald B. Gillies, a computer scientist. The latter has taught at the University of Illinois, where Jones, according to his webpage[1] received his PhD in 1980. On the other hand, Donald A. Gillies has never had a faculty position outside of the UK. Nsk92 (talk) 18:05, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I am pretty sure you are right. Thanks for the correction. —Dominus (talk) 03:03, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
