Aho: Seeing the Dragon Book in Hackers convinced his children that he was "really something."

Alfred Vaino Aho, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses how he wrote the "Dragon Book" (Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools) with Jeffrey Ullman and why an Angelia Jolie movie convinced his kids that "their only man was really something." This clip is taken from an interview conducted with Aho by Hansen Hsu for the ACM and Computer History Museum on June 13, 2022. Video of the full interview is available as part of Aho’s ACM profile at amturing.acm.o....