Jack B. Dennis

Jack B. Dennis is an electrical engineer and a computer scientist.

His career

Dennis entered MIT in 1949 as an electrical engineering major and received M.S. (1954) and continued doctoral research and received Sc.D. (1958). He became a full professor in 1969. He is one of the team members of the Multics project. Multics, though not particularly commercially successful in itself, was an inspiration for Ken Thompson to develop Unix.

He retired from MIT in 1987 to do independent projects and consulting. He developed compiler for the Sisal programming language and was a visiting scientist at NASA's Research Institute.

External links

• Jack B. Dennis : HomePage
• Photo Jack B. Dennis
• Parallel Computing Pioneers - Jack B. Dennis