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Fernando J. Corbató
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American computer scientist (1926–2019)
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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.
Career
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