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Early life and education
Dennis graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as Bachelor of Science (1953), Master of Science (1954), and Doctor of Science (1958).BOOK, Wildes, Karl L., A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982, The MIT Press, 1985, 345, 978-0262231190,weblink His doctoral thesis analyzed the relation between mathematical programming problems and electrical networks. After completing his doctorate, Dennis became part of the MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science's faculty, being promoted to full professor in 1969.Career
As a professor at MIT, Dennis was influential in the work of student Alan Kotok and fellow professors Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy. He gave young programmers access to multi-million dollar computers and allowed them to see where their abilities could take them, inspiring a generation of MIT graduates who would shape the computer industry at DEC, Xerox Parc and ARPA.Dennis was one of the founders of the Multics project. His most important contribution to the project was the concept of the single-level memory. Multics was not fully successful as a commercial project, but it was important because it influenced the design of many other computer operating systems, most importantly the direct inspiration for Ken Thompson (who also worked on the project) to design the first incarnation of Unix. In recognition of his work on the Multics project, Dennis was elected as IEEE Fellow.Dennis' research at the MIT focused in Computer Theory and Computer Systems, specifically:- Theoretical Models for Computation
- Computation Structures
- Structure of Computer Systems
- Semantic Theory for Computer Systems
- Semantics of Parallel Computation
- Computer System Architecture
Awards and recognitions
- IEEE John von Neumann Medal, 2013WEB,weblink Dennis awarded IEEE John von Neumann Medal, 17 December 2012, MIT News, January 6, 2013,
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS) Hall of Fame, 2012WEB,weblink Dennis Selected for ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame, 10 February 2012, MIT News, January 6, 2013,
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), 2009WEB,weblink CSAIL PI Jack Dennis Named to NAE, CSAIL, MIT, January 6, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130609184411weblink">weblink June 9, 2013, dead,
- Eckert-Mauchly Award, 1984
- IEEE Fellow
- ACM Fellow
References
{{Reflist|30em}}External links
- Jack B. Dennis home page
- Photograph of Jack B. Dennis
- Oral history interview with Jack B. Dennis at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Dennis describes his educational background and work in time-sharing computer systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including the TX-0 computer, the work of John McCarthy on time-sharing, and the influence of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Dennis also recalls the competition between Digital Equipment Corporation, General Electric, Burroughs, and International Business Machines, to manufacture time-sharing systems. He describes the development of MULTICS at General Electric.
- Toward the Computer Utility: A Career in Computer System Architecture â Jack B. Dennis
- Parallel Computing Pioneers â Jack B. Dennis
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