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Fernando J. Corbató
American computer scientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fernando José "Corby" Corbató (July 1, 1926 – July 12, 2019) was an American computer scientist. He was known as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems and for creating the password system for computers.[2]
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Fernando José Corbató | |
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Born | (1926-07-01)July 1, 1926 Oakland, California, U.S. |
Died | July 12, 2019(2019-07-12) (aged 93) Newburyport, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology (B.S., 1950) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1956) |
Known for | Multics |
Awards | Turing Award (1990) Computer History Museum Fellow (2012) [1] |
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Fields | Computer Scientist |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | A calculation of the energy bands of the graphite crystal by means of the tight-binding method (1956) |
Doctoral advisor | John C. Slater |
Doctoral students | Jerome H. Saltzer |
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Among many awards, Corbató received the Turing Award in 1990, "for his pioneering work in organizing the concepts and leading the development of the general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems".
In 2012, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his pioneering work on timesharing and the Multics operating system".[3]
Corbató died on July 12, 2019 in Newburyport, Massachusetts from problems caused by diabetes at the age of 93.[2]