The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Automated Engineering Design
AED

    (AED) (Or "ALGOL Extended for Design") A systems
   language for the IBM 7090 and IBM 360 developed at MIT
   System Laboratory ca. 1965 by a team led by Douglas T. Ross
   (now at Softech).  AED is an extension of ALGOL 60 with
   records ("plexes"), pointers, and dynamic allocation.
   DYNAMO II was written in AED, as was the first BCPL
   compiler.

   Versions: AED-0, AED-1, AED-JR.

   ["The Automated Engineering Design (AED) Approach to
   Generalized Computer-Aided Design", D.T. Ross, Proc ACM 22nd
   Natl Conf, 1967].

   [Sammet 1969 and 1978].

   (1995-03-26)