Jack Dennis
American computer scientist (born 1931) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jack Bonnell Dennis (born October 13, 1931)[1] is an American computer scientist and Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jack Dennis | |
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Born | (1931-10-13) October 13, 1931 (age 92) Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.[1] |
Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | Multics |
Awards | IEEE John von Neumann Medal, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS) Hall of Fame, Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | MIT |
Doctoral advisor | Dean Norman Arden |
Doctoral students | Peter J. Denning Randal Bryant Guang Gao |
The work of Dennis in computer systems and computer languages is recognized to have played a key role in hacker culture. As a Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty member he sponsored easier access to computer facilities at MIT during the early development of the subculture.[2][3] Much of what would later become Unix came from his early collaboration with Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson. This collaborative and open philosophy lives on today.
Dennis was also a member of the historic Tech Model Railroad Club, which incubated much of the early slang and traditions of hacking.