Elliott I. Ogranick participated with Robert (Bob) Barton, C.A.R. Hoare, Edsger Dijkstra, and others in the creation of the Burroughs large systems, the latter described in an ACM monograph of the same name[1] of which he was the sole author. He also participated in the development of the Multics system.
He was editor of ACM Computing Surveys (ISSN:0360-0300) between 1973 and 1976.
In 1985 he received the SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education[2]
He died on December 21, 1985 after a long battle with leukemia.
He taught at the University of Utah, where a Memorial Lecture series was established in his name.
Publications
Elliott Organick's 1972 The Multics System: An Examination of its Structure (ISBN 0-262-15012-3) is available from the MIT Libraries [1] as a digital reprint (Laser-printed copy or PDF download of a scanned version.)
References
- ^ Computer Systems Organization: The B5700/B6700. ACM Monograph Series, 1973. LCN: 72-88334
- ^ http://www.sigcse.org/about/awards.shtml
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