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Fernando J. Corbató
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American computer scientist (1926–2019)
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Fernando J. Corbató, nicknamed Corby, was born on 1 July 1926 in Oakland and was an American computer scientist and university teacher. He was educated at the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where John C. Slater was his doctoral advisor, and he worked at MIT. His interests included time-sharing, and his notable work was the Compatible Time-Sharing System.
Corbató received the Turing Award, the W. Wallace McDowell Award, the Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, and was named an ACM Fellow. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Association for Computing Machinery, and had an Erdős number of 5. His archives are held at the Computer History Museum. He died of diabetes on 12 July 2019 in Newburyport.
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Key facts
- Born
- Fernando José Corbató , ( 1926-07-01 ) July 1, 1926, Oakland, California , U.S.
- Died
- July 12, 2019 (2019-07-12) (aged 93), Newburyport, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Education
- University of California, Los Angeles , California Institute of Technology ( BS ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MS , PhD )
- Known for
- Multics
- Awards
- Turing Award (1990) , Computer History Museum Fellow (2012)
- Fields
- Computer scientist
- Institutions
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Thesis
- A calculation of the energy bands of the graphite crystal by means of the tight-binding method (1956)
- Doctoral advisor
- John C. Slater
- Doctoral students
- Jerome H. Saltzer
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Oakland
- Place of death
- Newburyport
- Occupation
- computer scientist
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Compatible Time-Sharing System
- Doctoral advisor
- John C. Slater
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Fernando Corbato.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1926-07-01
- Erdős number
- 5
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- date of death
- 2019-07-12
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- diabetes
- interested in
- time-sharing
- nickname
- Corby
- name in native language
- Fernando J. Corbató
- Commons category
- Fernando J. Corbató
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- Commons Creator page
- Fernando J. Corbató
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Encyclopedic overview
Fernando José "Corby" Corbató (July 1, 1926 – July 12, 2019) was an American computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems. He won the 1990 ACM Turing Award.
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