17 Feb
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17 Feb
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On 15 Feb 2025 18:41:21 -0800,Van Snyder
<van.snyder(a)sbcglobal.net <mailto:van.snyder@sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
Harry Husky, the G15 designer, was one of the computer design pioneers.
He became a professor (maybe adjunct) at UC Berkeley.
As far as I know, Huskey was a regular professor. Two of his Ph.D. students went on to win
the ACM Turing Award: Niklaus Wirth and Butler Lampson:
https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=10185
Huskey went on to found the Computer Science department at U.C. Santa Cruz.
17 Feb
17 Feb
5:25 p.m.
New subject: Elliott Algol
On Mon, 2025-02-17 at 14:02 -0800, Paul McJones wrote:
Was he a Bendix employee also, perhaps before he was a professor, or
was he a consultant to Bendix while he was a professor?
On 15 Feb 2025
18:41:21 -0800,Van Snyder <van.snyder(a)sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
Harry Husky, the G15 designer, was one of the computer design
pioneers.
He became a professor (maybe adjunct) at UC Berkeley.
As far as I know, Huskey was a regular professor. Two of his Ph.D.
students went on to win the ACM Turing Award: Niklaus Wirth and
Butler Lampson:
Huskey went on to found the Computer Science department at U.C. Santa
Cruz.
6:13 p.m.
New subject: Elliott Algol
On Feb 17, 2025, at 5:25 PM, Van Snyder
<van.snyder(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
On Mon, 2025-02-17 at 14:02 -0800, Paul McJones wrote:
Was he a Bendix employee also, perhaps before he was a professor, or was he a consultant
to Bendix while he was a professor?
According to Mathematics at Berkeley: A History by Calvin C. Moore, after designing and
building the SWAC computer between December 6, 1948 and July 1950,
"Huskey stayed on at UCLA with the title of assistant director of the institute for
Numerical Analysis (INA), helping people use the machine. During 1952-1953, he took a
one-year leave of absence from INA to go to Wayne State University, where, as founding
director of the computational laboratory, he established a first-rate operation. At the
same time, he dusted off some old ideas and designed the first ‘personal computer,’ which
he sold to the Bendix Corporation. Bendix produced and marketed this machine as the G-15
for a price of about $50,000, and it was a commercial success. …
This book, which I highly recommend, describes Huskey’s earlier work on ENIAC and the
Pilot Ace. And it says Huskey was initially hired as an acting associate professor for the
1954-55 academic year (jointly in mathematics and engineering), was hired as an associate
professor in July 1955 and promoted to full professor in 1958.
https://epdf.pub/mathematics-at-berkeley-a-historya94c16b23316199e68e103a3f…
On 15 Feb
2025 18:41:21 -0800,Van Snyder <van.snyder(a)sbcglobal.net
<mailto:van.snyder@sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
Harry Husky, the G15 designer, was one of the computer design pioneers.
He became a professor (maybe adjunct) at UC Berkeley.
As far as I know, Huskey was a regular professor. Two of his Ph.D. students went on to
win the ACM Turing Award: Niklaus Wirth and Butler Lampson:
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