M. Douglas McIlroy, Ph.D.

Dartmouth College, Department of Computer Science

An Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth, M. Douglas McIlroy retired in 1997 from the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories (formerly a part of AT&T, now Alcatel-Lucent). At Bell Labs he headed the Computing Techniques Research Department from 1965 to 1986, and thereafter served as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. Best known as the birthplace of the Unix operating system, the Computing Techniques Research Department did wide-ranging theoretical and applied research in programming languages, compilers, operating systems, design verification, algorithms, computational complexity, text processing, graphics, image processing, and computer security.

In 2004 the Usenix Association presented Doug its lifetime achievement award "for over fifty years of elegant contributions to Unix and programming", and also its Software Tools User Group award. In 2006 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Doug earned a bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Email: doug[at]cs.dartmouth.edu
Website: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/

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