Biography:Rudd Canaday
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| Alma mater | Harvard University (B A., 1959) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1964) |
| Occupation | Computer scientist, engineer and business executive |
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Rudd Canaday is an American computer systems engineer and a previous member of the technical staff at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, credited to co-develop the initial design of the Unix file system.[1][2] In 2015 he joined a Palo Alto based tech startup, Entefy, as a Senior Architect & Engineer.[3][4]
Research and career
Canaday received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Physics from Harvard University in 1959 and received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964.
In the 1960s, Ken Thompson developed a game called Space Travel on Multics. Bell Labs left the Multics project in 1969, so Thompson ported the game to FORTRAN for the GECOS operating system. That version was awkward and slow; Thompson found a little-used PDP-7 with a graphics display, and proceeded to write development tools for the PDP-7 and use them to port the game. The development environment was awkward, so Thompson decided to design his own hierarchical file system for the machine, along with Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIlroy and Canaday.[5] He started developing an operating system to use with that file system. Joe Ossanna joined Thompson, Ritchie and Canaday to develop the operating system, called Unics, later named Unix.[6][7]
In 1973, Canaday along with Evan Ivie started developing the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) to support a computer center for a 1000-employee Bell Labs division, which would be the largest Unix site for several years.[8]
Selected publications
- Canaday, Rudd H.; Harrison, R. D.; Ivie, Evan L.; Ryder, J. L.; Wehr, L. A. (1974). "A back-end computer for data base management". Communications of the ACM 17 (10): 575–582. doi:10.1145/355620.361172.
- Canaday, Rudd H. (1965-11-30). "Two-dimensional iterative logic". Las Vegas, Nevada: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 343–353. doi:10.1145/1463891.1463931. ISBN 978-1-4503-7885-7.
See also
- History of Unix
- PWB/UNIX
References
- ↑ Anthes, Gary (2009-07-27). "Unix Turns 40" (in en). https://www.computerworld.com/article/2551095/unix-turns-40.html.
- ↑ Canaday, Rudd H. (1965-11-30). "Two-dimensional iterative logic". Las Vegas, Nevada: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 343–353. doi:10.1145/1463891.1463931. ISBN 978-1-4503-7885-7.
- ↑ "Rudd Canaday, LinkedIn". https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudd-canaday-62028067/.
- ↑ "Co-Inventor of UNIX, Dr. Rudd Canaday, Joins Palo Alto Tech Startup, Entefy" (in en). 2015-01-22. https://www.entefy.com/blog/post/186/co-inventor-of-unix-dr-rudd-canaday-joins-palo-alto-tech-startup-entefy.
- ↑ Toomey, Warren (28 November 2011). "The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix" (in en). https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix.
- ↑ "Unix History, Who invented Unix" (in en-US). https://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix_dev.htm.
- ↑ Ritchie, Dennis M.. "Yes, A video game contributed to Unix Development". Harvard University. http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~lib215/reference/history/spacetravel.html.
- ↑ Dolotta, T. A.; Mashey, J. R. (1976-10-13). "An introduction to the Programmer's Workbench". Washington DC: IEEE Computer Society Press. pp. 164–168. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/800253.807669.
External links
- LinkedIn profile
- Why the co-inventor of Unix joined Entefy (Youtube video with narration by Rudd Canaday)
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