| Glen Culler
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| Born | July 7, 1927 Savonburg, Kansas |
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| Died | May 3, 2003 |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Electrical engineering, computer science |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Magnus Hestenes |
| Notable awards | National Medal of Technology 1999 Seymour Cray Award – IEEE Computer Society 2000 |
Glen Jacob Culler (July 7, 1927 - May 3, 2003) was a professor of electrical engineering and an important early innovator in the development of the Internet. Events 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Savonburg is a city in Allen County, Kansas, United States. The population was 91 at the 2000 census. Events 1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries adopting the baptismal name of João Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The University of California Santa Barbara ( UCSB) is a selective research-oriented public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County California Alma mater is Latin for "nourishing mother" It was used in Ancient Rome as a title for the mother Goddess, and in Medieval The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley A doctorate is an Academic degree that indicates the highest level of academic achievement Magnus Rudolph Hestenes (1906 - May 31, 1991) was an American mathematician The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (formerly known as the National Medal of Technology) is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American The Seymour Cray Computer Science and Engineering Award, also known as the Seymour Cray Award, is an Award given to recognize significant and innovative contributions IEEE Computer Society is an organizational unit of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Events 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries adopting the baptismal name of João Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Electrical engineering, sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering, is a field of Engineering that deals with the study and application of The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks Culler joined the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) mathematics faculty in 1959 and helped put the campus in the forefront of what would become the field of computer science. The University of California Santa Barbara ( UCSB) is a selective research-oriented public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County California Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their He later served as director of the UCSB Computer Center and professor in the College of Engineering and extended his revolutionary view of the role of computers to include their use in the classroom. He left UCSB to work in industry and establish his own company, called Culler-Harrison, in 1969. Culler-Harrison became CHI Systems, and later, Culler Scientific.
Work
Culler was the developer of the Culler-Fried Online System, one of the first interactive computer systems in the mid-1960 era. This was the first system to make use of a storage oscilloscope as a means of presenting graphical information, and provided an innovative means of presentation and teaching of mathematical concepts. An oscilloscope (commonly abbreviated to scope or O-scope) is a type of Electronic test equipment that allows signal Voltages to be viewed One of the first object oriented approaches to computing, the system provided a set of operators (e. g. , add, subtract, display, multiply, sin, exp) on a predefined set of mathematical objects: scalars, vectors, arrays, and matrices. Culler's online system was chosen by ARPA to be one of the first four nodes on the original ARPANET in 1969, and with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), participated in the first exchange of packets of data transmitted in the nascent Internet. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new Technology The ARPANET ( Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) developed by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense, was the world's first operational The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United In Information technology, a packet is a formatted unit of Data carried by a Packet mode Computer network.
Culler returned to UCSB as an adjunct professor from 1982 through 1984. The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies Over 25 companies in Santa Barbara were spun out of Culler’s work and the College of Engineering’s Computer Research Laboratory. Santa Barbara is a city in Santa Barbara County California, United States.
Awards
In 2000, President of the United States Bill Clinton awarded Culler the National Medal of Technology for his "pioneering innovations in multiple branches of computing, including early efforts in digital speech processing, invention of the first on-line system for interactive graphical mathematics computing, and pioneering work on the ARPAnet. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (formerly known as the National Medal of Technology) is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American "
He was also a recipient of the Seymour Cray Computer Science and Engineering Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The Seymour Cray Computer Science and Engineering Award, also known as the Seymour Cray Award, is an Award given to recognize significant and innovative contributions The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (read eye-triple-e) is an international Non-profit, professional organization
References
- http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/coe/pubs/noted/MemoriamF03.pdf
- http://home.att.net/%7Emicroworks/gjc/timeline.html
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