Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1924, Dec. 3 | Born, Philadelphia, Pa. |
| 1942 | Attended University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. |
| 1943-1946 | United States Army, studied engineering at University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., and medicine at Flower and Fifth Avenue Medical School, New York, N.Y. |
| 1949 | B.S. in mathematics, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1950 | M.A. in mathematics, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1950-1953 | Programmer, IBM, New York, N.Y. |
| 1953-1959 | Manager, programming research, IBM, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. |
| 1959-1963 | Staff member, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. |
| 1963-1991 | IBM fellow, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Almaden Research Center, San Jose, Calif. |
| 1968 | Married Barbara Una Stannard |
| 1976 | Received National Medal of Science (National Science Foundation) |
| 1977 | Received A. M. Turing Award (Association for Computing Machinery) |
| 1993 | Received Charles Stark Draper Prize (National Academy of Engineering) |
| 2007, Mar. 17 | Died, Ashland, Oreg. |