Harry Huskey

Harry Huskey (born 1916) is an American computer designer pioneer.

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Harold D. Huskey was born in the Smoky Mountains region of North Carolina and subsequently grew up in Idaho. He gained his Masters and than his PhD in 1943 from the Ohio State University on Contributions to the Problem of Geocze. He taught mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania and then worked part-time on the early ENIAC computer in 1945.

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Smoky Mountains - North Carolina - Idaho - Masters - PhD - 1943 - Ohio State University - Mathematics - University of Pennsylvania - ENIAC - 1945

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He visited the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK for a year and worked on the Pilot ACE computer with Alan Turing and others. He was also involved with the EDVAC and SEAC computer projects.

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National Physical Laboratory - UK - Pilot ACE - Alan Turing - EDVAC - SEAC

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Huskey designed and managed the construction of the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at the National Bureau of Standards in Los Angeles (1949–1953). He also designed the G15 computer for Bendix Aviation Corporation, which could perhaps be considered as the first "personal" computer in the world. He had one at his home that is now in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.

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Standards Western Automatic Computer - National Bureau of Standards - Los Angeles - 1949 - 1953 - G15 - Bendix Aviation Corporation - Smithsonian Institution - Washington DC

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After five years at the US National Bureau of Standards, Huskey he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1954 and then Santa Cruz from 1966. At Berkeley, he supervised the pioneering programming language designer Niklaus Wirth, who gained his PhD in 1963. He is now Professor Emeritus at the University of California, after his retirement at the age of 70 in 1986.

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US - National Bureau of Standards - University of California, Berkeley - 1954 - Santa Cruz - 1966 - Niklaus Wirth - PhD - 1963 - Professor Emeritus - University of California - 1986

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Huskey married Velma Roeth (died 1991) and had four children. He then married Nancy Grindstaff in 1994 and now lives in Sun City Hilton Head, South Carolina.

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1991 - 1994 - Sun City Hilton Head - South Carolina

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