> On Feb 17, 2025, at 5:25 PM, Van Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2025-02-17 at 14:02 -0800, Paul McJones wrote: >>> On 15 Feb 2025 18:41:21 -0800,Van Snyder <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Harry Husky, the G15 designer, was one of the computer design pioneers. >>> He became a professor (maybe adjunct) at UC Berkeley. >> >> As far as I know, Huskey was a regular professor. Two of his Ph.D. students >> went on to win the ACM Turing Award: Niklaus Wirth and Butler Lampson: > > Was he a Bendix employee also, perhaps before he was a professor, or was he a > consultant to Bendix while he was a professor?
According to Mathematics at Berkeley: A History by Calvin C. Moore, after designing and building the SWAC computer between December 6, 1948 and July 1950, "Huskey stayed on at UCLA with the title of assistant director of the institute for Numerical Analysis (INA), helping people use the machine. During 1952-1953, he took a one-year leave of absence from INA to go to Wayne State University, where, as founding director of the computational laboratory, he established a first-rate operation. At the same time, he dusted off some old ideas and designed the first ‘personal computer,’ which he sold to the Bendix Corporation. Bendix produced and marketed this machine as the G-15 for a price of about $50,000, and it was a commercial success. … This book, which I highly recommend, describes Huskey’s earlier work on ENIAC and the Pilot Ace. And it says Huskey was initially hired as an acting associate professor for the 1954-55 academic year (jointly in mathematics and engineering), was hired as an associate professor in July 1955 and promoted to full professor in 1958. https://epdf.pub/mathematics-at-berkeley-a-historya94c16b23316199e68e103a3fa00a1563288.html
