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Consider Chuck Moore, who appears to be active still and started programming in the 1950's:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080709050817/http://colorforth...

Claude Shannon created the THROBAC I to do this. https://www.flickr.com/photos/synesthete/2591624549

Work to make widely-deployed software more efficient. For open source software, anyone can help with this. Data centers are ~2% of U.S. energy consumption [0], and that will probably grow.

[0] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/06/27/heres...

This new paper covers some state-of-the-art techniques:

https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~mangpo/www/papers/lens-asplos...

TIS-100

There's a beautiful example of this in the J implementation of continuous knapsack on Rosetta Code: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem/Continuous#J

This is actually from 1959, not 1969 as the title indicates. Amazingly early successful work.

2.0 is unfortunately missing inline images, the killer feature that's still only in the nightlies: http://www.iterm2.com/images.html