While the first public release of Fortran was in 1956, its design started in 1954 and the GOTO statement was already included in the preliminary Fortran from 1954.

Besides the inventor of parametron, there is also Kazushige Goto, who became famous after writing in 2002 the library GotoBLAS, which was for some years the fastest library for linear algebra and which inspired all later such libraries. He later worked at Microsoft, then at Intel.

What is funny is that searching right now "Kazushige Goto" in Bing, it immediately returned a confident AI answer that "Kazushige Goto was a Japanese scientist who invented the parametron in 1954 while he was a ...".

I pity those who believe any of the AI answers that most search engines force now upon their users.

I wonder if there is any relationship between the 2 Goto, but it is unlikely, because Goto is not rare among the Japanese family names.

Goto (as in "Go to") and Goto (as in the romaji version of one of 後藤, 五藤, 五島, …) is simple two things that sound/look the same when written in ASCII w/o spaces. :)

pronounced `go toe`

There's also GotoBLAS, developed by Kazushige Goto. I wonder if they have any relation or if it's a relatively common name.