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Douglas McIlroy
Malcolm Douglas McIlroy is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2019 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. McIlroy is best known for having originally proposed Unix pipelines and developed several Unix tools, such as echo, spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr. He was also one of the pioneering researchers of macro processors and program…
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science · American mathematician and computer scientist · mathematician · engineer · programmer · university teacher · computer scientist · also Douglas McIlroy, Malcolm Douglas McIlroy, M. Douglas McIlroy, M. D. McIlroy, Doug McIlroy, McIlroy
Born 24 April 1932 · Q92881
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2006· 1 entry
Was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering
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2004· 1 entry
Won both the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award ("The Flame") and its Software Tools User Group (STUG) award
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1997· 1 entry
McIlroy retired from Bell Labs, and took a position as an adjunct professor in the Dartmouth College Computer Science Department
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1995).
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Was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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1969· 1 entry
Contributed an efficient algorithm to generate all spanning trees in a graph (first discovered by George J
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1959· 1 entry
For his thesis On the Solution of the Differential Equations of Conical Shells (advisor Eric Reissner)
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-04-24.
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