High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Elliot Bruce Koffman (born 7 May 1942, Boston, Massachusetts) is a noted computer scientist and educationist. He is the author of numerous widely-used introductory textbooks for more than 10 different programming languages, including Ada, BASIC, C, C++, FORTRAN, Java, Modula-2, and Pascal. Since 1974, he has been a professor of computer and information sciences at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.