Harry Douglas Huskey (born January 19, 1916) is an American computer designer pioneer. Events 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
Huskey was born in the Smoky Mountains region of North Carolina and grew up in Idaho. The Great Smoky Mountains are a major Mountain range in the southern part of the Appalachian Mountains, the second ridge line forming a north-south running mountain North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States The State of Idaho ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. He gained his Master's and then his PhD in 1943 from the Ohio State University on Contributions to the Problem of Geocze. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. The Ohio State University ( OSU) is a Coeducational public Research university in the state of Ohio. Huskey taught mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania and then worked part-time on the early ENIAC computer in 1945. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first general-purpose electronic Computer.
He visited the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom for a year and worked on the Pilot ACE computer with Alan Turing and others. The National Physical Laboratory (NPL is the national Measurement standards laboratory for the United Kingdom, based at Bushy Park in Teddington The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Pilot ACE was one of the first Computers built in the United Kingdom, at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL in the early 1950s Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (ˈt(jʊ(ərɪŋ (23 June 1912 &ndash 7 June 1954 was an English Mathematician He was also involved with the EDVAC and SEAC computer projects. EDVAC ( E lectronic D iscrete V ariable A utomatic C omputer) was one of the earliest electronic Computers
Huskey designed and managed the construction of the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at the National Bureau of Standards in Los Angeles (1949–1953). The SWAC ( Standards Western Automatic Computer) was an early electronic digital Computer built in 1950 by the U Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West He also designed the G15 computer for Bendix Aviation Corporation, which could perhaps be considered as the first "personal" computer in the world. The Bendix G-15 Computer was introduced in 1956 by the Bendix Corporation, Computer Division Los Angeles California. The Bendix Aviation Corporation, a manufacturer of aircraft parts was started by Inventor Vincent Bendix in 1929 as a continuation of his auto parts company He had one at his home that is now in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The Smithsonian Institution (smɪθsoʊnɪən is an educational and research institute and associated Museum complex administered and funded by the Government of Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D
After five years at the National Bureau of Standards, Huskey joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1954 and then University of California, Santa Cruz from 1966. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley While at Berkeley, he supervised the research of pioneering programming language designer Niklaus Wirth, who gained his PhD in 1963. Niklaus Emil Wirth (b February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several Programming languages including He is now Professor Emeritus at the University of California, after his retirement at the age of 70 in 1986. 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 The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California. In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational Computing society
Huskey married Velma Roeth (died 1991) and had four children. He married Nancy Grindstaff in 1994 and now lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Spartanburg is the largest city in and the County seat of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United South Carolina ( is a state in the southern region ( Deep South) of the United States of America.
Trivia
Huskey appeared with a junk dealer as the third pair of contestants in an episode of Groucho Marx's radio show "You Bet Your Life". You Bet Your Life is an American Radio and Television Quiz show. He was described as the designer of an "electronic brain". Artificial brain is the research to develop software and hardware that has cognitive abilities similar to the animal or Human brain. They selected the "state category" and missed the final question when they failed to identify Iowa as the state North of Missouri. [1]
References
See also:
- Huskey, H. D. Harry D. Huskey: His Story. BookSurge Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-59457-680-7.
- Huskey, H. D. The ACE Test Assembly, the Pilot ACE, the Big ACE, and the Bendix G15. In Copeland, B. J., Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine, chapter 13, pages 281–295. B Jack Copeland (born 1950 is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-856593-3.
- Huskey, H. D. The state of the art in electronic digital computing in Britain and the United States (1947). In Copeland, B. J., Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine, chapter 23, pages 529–540. B Jack Copeland (born 1950 is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-856593-3.
External links
- Harry D. Huskey bibliography in the DBLP database