Daniel D. McCracken graduated in 1951 from Central Washington University. He is an author, a former president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Professor of Computer Sciences at the City College, City University of New York. His Digital Computer Programming (1957) was the first textbook on the subject. Among his 25 titles are standard works on Fortran (1961, 1965, 1974, 1984, and 1988), Algol (1962), Cobol (1963, 1970, 1976, 1988, and 1990), and numerical methods (1964 and 1972). He has also published on the Intel microcomputer programming language PL/M (1978) and the Fourth Generation Language Nomad (1981). His books have been translated into 15 languages and have sold about 1.6 million copies. Mr. McCracken graduated in 1951 from Central Washington University with degrees and mathematics and chemistry. After seven years with the General Electric Company in a variety of assignments in computer applications and programmer training, he spent a year at the New York University Atomic Energy Commission Computer Center, then (1959) went into full time consulting and writing on computer subjects. While at NYU he was a graduate student at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He joined the City College Computer Sciences Department in 1981 and chaired it in 1989-91. His consulting clients include the Federal Aviation Agency, Honeywell, Shell Oil, IBM, Intel, Dun & Bradstreet, and Sybase. In 1989 he received the Norbert Weiner Award for Social and Professional Responsibility from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. In 1992 the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education gave him their award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education. He is an honorary member of the Golden Key National Honor Society.