Harry Huskey
| Harry Douglas Huskey | |
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Harry Huskey and late wife Nancy at the Sunshine Villa Winter Ball in Santa Cruz, CA Dec. 8, 2011
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| Born |
January 19, 1916 Smoky Mountains, North Carolina |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
University of California University of Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater |
Ohio State University (Master & PhD) University of Idaho (Bachelor) |
| Thesis | Contributions to the Problem of Geocze (1943) |
| Doctoral students |
Butler Lampson Niklaus Wirth |
| Notable awards |
ACM Fellow (1994) Computer History Museum Fellow (2013) |
| Spouse | Velma Roeth (died 1991); Nancy Grindstaff (married 1994, died 2015) |
Harry Douglas Huskey (born January 19, 1916) is an American computer designer pioneer. Huskey was born in the Smoky Mountains region of North Carolina and grew up in Idaho. He received his Bachelor's degree at the University of Idaho. He gained his Master's and then his PhD in 1943 from the Ohio State University on Contributions to the Problem of Geocze. Huskey taught mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania and then worked part-time on the early ENIAC computer in 1945.
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. He was also involved with the EDVAC and SEAC computer projects.
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, D.C.
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