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Name: Jack B. Dennis
Born: Unknown
Born: Unknown
Computer related contributions
- Computer scientist and retired MIT professor.
- He was involved in early work on time-sharing through the PDP-1 which his research group owned at MIT; that hardware later became famous in computer science history as the machine on which hacker culture started.
- He also sponsored the MIT student-run Tech Model Railroad Club in its early years, where the hacker culture is said to have taken root before spreading to the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.
- Later, he was one of the founding members of the Multics project, to which he contributed one of its most important concepts, the single-level memory.
- Multics, though not particularly commercially successful in itself, was an inspiration for Ken Thompson to develop Unix.
Honors and awards
- Inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994)
- Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (2009)
Quotes
"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."
"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."
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