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Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) 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 spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr.
M. Douglas McIlroy, Adjunct Professor. Department of Computer Science 6211 Sudikoff Hall Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu +1 603 646 1077. 2003 marked my golden anniversary as a programmer.
An adjunct professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, M. Douglas. McIlroy retired in 1997 from Bell Laboratories (successively a part of. AT&T and its spinoff Lucent Technologies, since acquired by Alcatel then. Nokia). At Bell Labs he headed a computer-science research department.
Mar 15, 2024 · M. Douglas McIlroy ’53, attended his 70th School of Applied and Engineering Physics class reunion in spring 2023. McIlroy – mathematician, engineer and programmer – graduated with a B.E.P. degree in engineering physics from the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell, where he became fascinated with computers.
McIlroy: Theoretically, current goes-- is the square of the voltage; but, in practice, because of roughness and all kinds of other things, this isn’t quite right. And, typically, they use the 1.85 power from the Hazen-Williams Law.
Malcolm Douglas McIlroy is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer. He is famous for inventing the pipeline used in the UNIX computer operating system, the principles of component-based software engineering and several original UNIX utilities: spell, diff, sort, join, speak, and tr. Biography
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The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development. It is based on the experience of leading developers of the Unix operating system.
