Douglas McIlroy
Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is a
mathematician,
engineer, and
programmer. As of 2007 he is an Adjunct Professor of
Computer Science at
Dartmouth College. Dr. McIlroy is best known for having originally developed the
Unix pipeline implementation,
software componentry and several
Unix tools, such as
spell,
diff,
sort,
join,
graph,
speak, and
tr.Dr. McIlroy earned his
Bachelor's degree in engineering physics from
Cornell University in 1954, and a
Ph.D. in applied mathematics from
MIT in 1959 for his thesis
On the Solution of the Differential Equations of Conical Shells. He joined
Bell Laboratories in 1958, from 1965-1986 was head of its Computing Techniques Research Department (thebirthplace of the
Unix operating system), and thereafter was Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. He retired from Bell Labs in 1997, and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Dartmouth College Computer Science Department.He is a member of the
National Academy of Engineering, and has won both the
USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award ("The Flame") and its Software Tools award. He has previously served the
Association for Computing Machinery as national lecturer,
Turing Award chairman, member of the publications planning committee, and associate editor for the
Communications of the ACM, the
Journal of the ACM, and
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. He alsoserved on the executive committee of
CSNET.
Quotes
- Those types are not "abstract"; they are as real as int and float.
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