Louis Stevens

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Louis Stevens (born April 25, 1925 in Post (Texas) , † October 17, 2009 in Aptos (California)) was an American engineer at IBM , co-developer of the first hard drive .

Stevens was from 1943 as a radio technician with the US Marine Corps and then studied electrical engineering with a GI Bill at Texas Tech University and the University of California, Berkeley with a master's degree. From 1949 he was at IBM, first in Poughkeepsie in New Jersey and then from 1952 in San José (head of the Reynold B. Johnson research center ). There he led the team that developed the first hard drive ( IBM 305 RAMAC , 1956). William A. Goddard and John Lynott were also significantly involved . In 1984 he retired from IBM and taught computer science at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey (California) for ten years .

He held eight patents.

In 2008 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame .

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