Edward J. McCluskey

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Edward Joseph McCluskey, Jr. (* 16th October 1929 ; † 13. February 2016 ) was Electrical Engineering - and computer science - Professor at Stanford University . As a doctoral student at MIT in 1956, he and Willard Quine designed the Quine-McCluskey algorithm , one of the most efficient methods for minimizing Boolean functions . The focus of his work at Stanford is on the design and development of fault-tolerant systems and corresponding test scenarios and verifications. McCluskey also became the first president of the computer division of the IEEE , of which he remains a member, as well as the AAAS and the Association for Computing Machinery . He was awarded the John von Neumann Medal in 2012.

Career

  • 1953–1956: Studies (physics, mathematics) at MIT , graduation as Sc.D. 1956
  • 1955–1959: Work on electronic switches at Bell Telephone Laboratories
  • 1959–1963: Moved to Princeton , lecturer in electrical engineering and head of the university computer center
  • 1963–1967: Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton
  • 1967–1968: visiting professor for electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford
  • from 1968: Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford
  • 1969: Founding member of the Stanford Computer Forum , a university-industry partnership program
  • from 1976: Head of the Center for Reliable Computing

literature

  • Design of digital computers . Springer, Berlin 1975, ISBN 0-387-06915-1 (together with Hans W. Gschwind).
  • Logic Design Principles with emphasis on testable semi-custom circuits . Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1986, ISBN 0-13-539784-7 .
  • A model for parallel computer systems . University Press, Stanford, Calif. 1970 (together with Thomas H. Bredt).
  • Reliable Digital Systems and Related Stanford University Research, The Evolution of Fault-Tolerant Computing . Springer-Verlag Vienna

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stanford Computer Researcher, Educator Edward McCluskey Dies
personal data
SURNAME McCluskey, Edward J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McCluskey, Edward Joseph; McCluskey, Edward Joseph Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American electrical engineer and professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1929
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2016