Mark Smotherman
last updated March 6, 2009
This page is designed to collect information on ACS veterans, how ACS fit into their careers, and what happened to them in the years since the project ended. I'm trying to include short bios and links to any web pages.
Anyone who would like to participate can email me a short bio (say 100 words or so) and I will include it. If anyone sees errors or omissions in their bio or in others, please let me know.
(I'm putting in place-holders for folks I have some info about but haven't yet contacted.)
"Joined IBM in Poughkeepsie after graduating from the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), BSEE in 1960. Worked on the 7080, 7010 projects and in 1964 joined the mod91 project. In 1967 transfered to ACS in California. In 1969 joined the San Jose Development Lab and was engineering manager of the BART project. In 1970 was named Sloan Fellow at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. In 1972 returned to the San Jose Lab and managed several development projects and later was Director of the Los Gatos Development Lab. In 1979 left IBM on a two year sailing adventure. In 1981 joined Amdahl Corporation and was VP of Product Development. In 1985 joined Adaptec and for 12 years served as President, COO, CEO and Chairman. Retired to Florida in 1997. Currently serve on the board of Adaptec, MMC Network and The Tech Museum of San Jose."
pages on Fran Allen from other web sites:
Dr. Amdahl was born November 16, 1922. He taught electronics in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He received his BSEP (Engineering Physics) from South Dakota State University in 1948 and his Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1952. His thesis described a computer he designed in 1950 called the WISC (Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer), built by EE grad students and now in the Computer History Museum.
Dr. Amdahl joined IBM in June 1952 and headed development of the IBM 704 followed by the complete planning of the IBM 709 and STRETCH (IBM 7030) before leaving IBM in December 1955. After working at Ramo Wooldridge and at Aeronutronic, he returned to IBM in September 1960. He then headed the architectural and data flow planning for the IBM System 360 product line, the Models 20, 30, 40, 55, 65, 75 and 95. He headed the Advanced Computing Systems laboratory in Menlo Park until he left IBM September 1970 to found Amdahl Corporation.
Dr. Amdahl was president and chairman of Amdahl Corporation, during which time the world's first large scale integrated circuitry was developed using ECL, permitting Amdahl Corporation to capture a significant share of the mainframe market with its 470 series followed by its 5800 series. He left Amdahl Corporation in August 1979.
In 1980, Dr. Amdahl co-founded Trilogy Systems Corporation to produce fault tolerant wafer-scale chips and a high-performance CPU. The concepts were proven but the cost projections were excessive, so Trilogy acquired Elxsi in 1985 for its principal computer system entry.
Andor International, Ltd. was founded by Dr. Amdahl in 1987 to continue innovations in technology. Andor specialized in the design, manufacture, and marketing of unique IBM-compatible products designed to improve the efficiency, performance, access, capacity, and protection of programs and data.
In August 1994, Dr. Amdahl co-founded Commercial Data Services, Inc. (CDS). CDS is a development stage company with plans to design a computer with the power and functionality of traditional mainframe at a comparable size and serviceability of smaller personal computers and network servers.
Dr. Amdahl was named an IBM Fellow in 1965, became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1967 and was recognized as the Centennial Alumnus of South Dakota State University in 1986. He has numerous awards and patents to his credit and has received Honorary Doctorates from his two alma matters and two other institutions as well.
Perhaps the best of many interesting magazine articles on Amdahl and Amdahl Corporation: "Gene Amdahl Takes Aim at IBM," Fortune, Sept. 1977, p. 106+. (discusses IBM's mainframe pricing policies of the late 60's and tendency of IBM's components division to favor broad need over high-performance; also contains a description and photos of Amdahl LSI circuits)
pages on Gene Amdahl from other web sites:
Dick Arnold was born in Berkeley, California, January 15, 1934. He died at his home in Palo Alto on Mother's Day May 11, 1997, at the age of 63 of pancreatic cancer.
Dick had a BA degree in clinical psychology from UC Berkeley, an MS in statistics from Michigan State University and a PhD in computer science from the University of Michigan. He worked as a computer scientist with IBM in San Jose and at Palo Alto. He was a particularly creative programmer and problem solver and an expert in data base systems.
For his military service he studied Chinese at the US Army language school in Monterey before serving in Japan as an analyst. He was a fervent Bible student, published in the field of genealogy, and was an accomplished Midi Keyboard player.
Dick is survived by his wife of 39 years, Diane, his sons, Richard and James, and grandchildren Elliott, Ashley and Emily.
(many thanks to Harwood Kolsky for collecting this biography of Dick Arnold)
James Calhoun Beatty, Jr. joined IBM in 1957, and started working at the research division on Boardman Rd, Poughkeepsie, NY. In those early years, he and Fran Allen who had joined IBM there the same year, began collaborating.
He took a leave of absence to travel and study mathematics and philosophy in Germany in 1960. Upon his return, he relocated to the then-new Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights. (In addition, he attended Columbia University Teachers College part-time during the early 1960s.)
Mr. Beatty was assigned to the ACS project based in Menlo Park, CA, in June, 1965. In May, 1968 he shared an IBM Outstanding Contribution Award with John Cocke and Fran Allen for their work developing highly efficient code with applications in super-computing. The award was entitled "Algorithms for Optimizing Compilers."
He studied towards his doctorate in mathematics and computer science at Stanford University from 1965-1972. He was born in Birmingham, AL. Class valedictorian in his high school in Vicksburg, MS, he went on to attend the University of Michigan, where he received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics; he was recruited by IBM on the Michigan campus. He died in December 1978, shortly before a planned foreign assignment to Stockholm, Sweden.
A description of his management style and the story of his efforts within the company on behalf the America project (RS/6000) is contained in chapter 9 of Paul Carroll, Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM, Crown Publishers, 1993, pp. 197-213.
Pugh, 1995, p. 311:
Built under the leadership of John E. Bertram, who had proposed the plan
for shifting from FS [Future System] back to 360-370 architecture, the 3033
lived up to its billing and successfully blocked Amdahl's effort to dominate
the high end of the mainframe computer business.
Pugh, 1995, p. 391, note 23:
In recognition of his contributions, IBM established the internal
John E. Bertram Award for Sustained Technical Excellence. The first
recipient of the award was John Cocke in 1990.
See also the Harwood Kolsky interview on memories of John Cocke
pages on John Cocke from other web sites:
"I was very fortunate to have had the opportunity to join "Project Y" at IBM Research when I was just out of grad school at Columbia. Working on the ACS architecture team was an incredible intellectual experience for me. For such a junior person, the chance to work with John Cocke, Fran Allen, Herb Schorr, Ed Sussenguth, Dick Arnold, Charlie Freiman, Don Rozenberg and all the other talented people was thrilling for me. The stimulating interactions and the high level of creativity of that team still stand out vividly in my memory. For a few years, it was as intense a place to be as the one I found later in my career: Xerox PARC.
It was a very big letdown for me when the ACS-1 machine was canceled. For other personal reasons, I had to leave IBM in the fall of '68. Casting about for another company to work for, I joined Memorex Corporation later on in '69, eventually becoming CPU architect for the Memorex 30 System (a System-3 competitor). Then Memorex left the computer business.
In '73 I joined Xerox PARC, initially working on the system architecture of a compound OCR/FAX system. That project was canceled in '75, and so, including ACS, that was now three strikes! I was really wondering where my career was headed!
Then my PARC lab manager Bert Sutherland introduced me to his brother Ivan and to Carver Mead, at Caltech, who were theorizing about the potential of VLSI. Mead and I teamed-up to innovate, simplify and formalize new methods for VLSI system design, publishing it as a text in '80. It sold over 70,000 copies, and had lots of impact on the industry and in the universities. I also invented, prototyped and demonstrated a new infrastructure for QTA chip prototyping that was transferred to USC-ISI to become the MOSIS system. MOSIS has supported university and research chip-design prototyping in the U.S. ever since.
I joined DARPA in '83 to lead the planning of DARPA's Strategic Computing Initiative. Instead of going back to PARC after my DARPA tour, I joined the University of Michigan as Associate Dean of Engineering and Professor of EECS in 1985. Partly this was a move to break out of the Bay Area, and "get a life", which I finally managed to do. I've just stepped down from active faculty status here at Michigan, as Professor Emerita of EECS.
Looking back, it seems as though each of those project cancellations were really blessings in disguise, for me! I've had the chance to move from great team project to great team project, and have worked with, and shared some great adventures with, many wonderful people along the way."
Lynn's won many awards for her work, including the Electronics Award for Achievement, the Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Pender Award of the Univ. of Pennsylvania, SWE's National Achievement Award, the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Achievement Award, recognition as Xerox Research Fellow, an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, election as a Fellow of the IEEE and election to the National Academy of Engineering.
For more information about Lynn, see:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/conway.html
For a retrospective on her career, see:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Retrospective.html
pages on Lynn Conway from other web sites:
"Up to his retirement in 1996 as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Desktop Networks Business Unit of Standard Microsystems Corporation (NASDAQ: SMSC), Paul Duggan had been with this business operation since its inception in 1986 as the Local Area Network (LAN) Business Unit of Western Digital. As General Manager, he brought the business from new product introduction to $ 30 million, $ 60 million, $ 90 million and $ 120 million in four successive years. Prior to its acquisition, it was the most profitable Business Unit of Western Digital (NYSE: WDC). He had profit/loss and direct management responsibility for marketing, engineering, and support, and was responsible for directing worldwide manufacturing.
In mid-1990, Duggan restructured the LAN Business Unit and positioned it for sale to Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMC). He worked with outside consultants and WD's finance organization on valuation, strategy, and identification of prospective acquirers. He also developed and organized the new business entity, and worked to close the deal.
Considered one of those rare mergers/acquisitions which succeeds, SMC's Desktop Networks Business Unit has introduced major new Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and Token Ring product lines, and more than doubled its revenue and profit since October 1991. Staffing and investment have grown by a similar amount. He was promoted to Corporate Vice President of SMC in 1995.
Before joining Western Digital, Duggan was a marketing executive with Sytek, now Hughes LAN Systems, a major local area network manufacturer. At Sytek, he managed their personal computer broadband network products based upon CATV technology. He was an early pioneer of Ethernet on broadband.
Prior to that, he co-founded and for three years managed development and marketing at California Network Systems, a venture-funded start-up focusing on the LAN-IBM mainframe connectivity market. During a twenty year career at I. B. M., he held various management and technical positions in engineering and marketing focusing on LAN server products, computer and storage subsystems development.
Duggan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech (1963), a Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Santa Clara University (1970), a Bachelor of Arts degree With Great Distinction in Philosophy and Psychology from San Jose State University (1980), and has completed his academic work toward a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology there.
He currently consults to the computer industry on issues of marketing, venture investment and mergers/acquisitions. He is an officer and board member of Truckee Sunrise Rotary and has served as a volunteer and board member of child abuse prevention agencies. He has extensive experience in counseling and group leadership.
Duggan has two daughters and a grandson. He and his wife, Karen Meyer, reside in Truckee, California."
John G. Earle graduated from Columbia University in 1958. After a year with Underwood Research Labs, he joined IBM Poughkeepsie in 1959. He held a wide range of technical assignnments primarily associated with unit logic, logic technology, logic automation, and computer system design. He served in the role of an IBM consultant across a wide range of processor and channel designs, leading up to, and including, the IBM S/360 line. He held technical responsibility for the design and implementation of the S/360 Model 91 processor.
In 1965, Mr. Earle was awarded a Sloan Engineering Fellowship at the MIT Center for Advanced Engineering Studies. Subsequently, he was appointed Manager of Technical Planning of IBM Advanced Computer Systems. He was appointed to the position of Computing System Adviser, Center for Scientific Studies, FSD, in March 1969, and he assumed the role of Manager of Architecture and Engineering Development, Special Processor System, in June 1969.
Later, Mr. Earle had overall responsibility for the processor and subsystem design for the Future Systems Architecture.
Mr. Earle was the author of The Logic Design of Transistor Digital Computers, which was published by Prentice Hall in 1963, and which became a classic in its field. He lectured extensively and held numerous Outstanding Contribution and Invention Achievement awards from IBM.
Mr. Earle is perhaps best remembered for developing the Earle latch, a technique in pipelining that adds a latch to existing logic with little overhead and no delay. (J.G. Earle, "Latched Carry-Save Adder", IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, Vol. 7, pp. 909-910, March 1965.)
Mr. Earle died in 2002.
"I joined IBM in 1957 after graduating from Holy Cross and Columbia Business School. Worked in corporate and headquarters finance and joined ACS in 1966 as Lab Controller until '71 at which time I returned to the New York area and joined IBM World Trade-Americas/Far East. Retired in 1988. Became Development Director for a non-profit 'need base' scholarship fund."
"I was a Sr. Associate Programmer in Poughkeepsie System Manufacturing Division in February 1967 when my manager asked if I would like a 3 month temporary assignment in Menlo Park. Poughkeepsie was to be the PLANT OF MANUFACTURING for the ACS System.
I accepted and was in Menlo Park by Mid-March 1967.
When I arrived the there was one other programmer on board, an SE from CO. Our assignment was to develop the software to control the Chip Placement, Wiring of the modules and drilling the vias and open-short testing of the boards using an IBM 1800 Process Control Computer.
Since I had never seen an 1800, I went to IBM School in SF for 1 month. The SE left the project in disgust over technical problems when the 1800 arrived.
I recruited 3 programmers from IBM Service Bureau SBC to do the conversion of Engineering Data to Manufacturing Data. I also recruited 2 more programmers from Poughkeepsie to do the computer controlled 1800 software. In March 1968 I was asked to permanently transfer to the ACS Project and in June 1968 I was appointed first line manager with responsibility for the Manufacturing Software and the Pilot Line. The Pilot Line consisted of the 4 women that did the manual module/board assembly and operated the Pilot Line Equipment.
We had the x-y tables under computer control by Aug. 1967 and running the Drilling and Open Short Testing of boards by Sep. 1967.
The automated Chip Placement/Bonding project was dropped and the wiring remained manual due to problems automating the process. A second shift of assemblers was added in early 1968.
When the project was cancelled the 2nd shift Pilot Line Manager was one of the first to be placed in a new assignment so I inherited the 2nd shift crew. So in addition to the 10 Programmers I had 14 Woman Assemblers to place in new assignments. The re-assignments of the assemblers went quite well. I and the 7 permanent programmers transferred to SAN JOSE with responsibility for developing Computer Controlled Automated Equipment for Magnetic Head/Disk/Read-Write Electronics DEVELOPMENT. I held various positions as a Programming or Microcode Manager. I was staff to Jerry Harries the Lab Director 1979-1981.
Later, I was the Test Systems Manager for the 3990 reporting to Billy Joe Mooney June 1985 - November 1988. I returned to San Jose as Engineering Test Manager from Nov 1988 to March 1991 when I left IBM."
"Dr. Kolsky is a retired IBM Fellow from the Palo Alto Scientific Center. He is a physicist who became a computer scientist when that field was new. He received his B.S. degree in engineering physics from the University of Kansas and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Harvard,
After seven years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Dr. Kolsky joined IBM in 1957 in Poughkeepsie as a member of the product planning group for the STRETCH (IBM 7030) computer. He then became assistant manager of an IBM Federal Systems office in Omaha, Nebraska, and later was at FSD headquarters, before being named manager of the systems science department at the San Jose Research Laboratory.
He joined the Palo Alto Scientific Center when it was formed in 1964 as manager of the atmospheric physics group. Later he headed projects in programming languages and digital image processing. Dr. Kolsky was named an IBM Fellow in 1969. He served on the Corporate Technical Committee at Armonk, and for many years headed the board of consultants for the IBM European Scientific Centers.
In 1985 he came to the new University of California, Santa Cruz, computer engineering board of studies as a visiting professor. In 1986 he retired from IBM and began a new career as a full-time professor at UCSC."
He retired from UCSC in 1996.
See also the Harwood Kolsky interview on memories of John Cocke
Bill Madden was born in 1931. He graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayettville in 1956 and joined IBM in June as a junior engineer. He spent eleven years in large systems, beginning with the engineering design of STRETCH, where he worked for a time with John Cocke and Harwood Kolsky. From 1960 to 1963 he helped plan and develop the Harvest project, S/360 Model 91, and the Parallel Network Digital Computer (PNDC).
He began work on the planning and architecture of ACS in 1966, and the planning and evaluation of storage products in 1968. His whole career was at IBM. He was promoted to Senior Engineer in 1968 and managed modeling and evaluation projects. He retired in July 1987.
He died of cancer in April 1990 at the age of 59. He left his wife, Wilma, and two daughters. Later there were four grandchildren that he never saw.
(many thanks to Harwood Kolsky for providing this biography of Bill Madden)
Max Paley was born in Poughkeepsie, NY, in 1927. After completing WW II military service he received his BS in EE from Penn State University in 1949. He joined IBM and rose rapidly in their Engineering organization. He managed IBM's first transistorized computer project, an experimental IBM 608. He was Engineering Manager of IBM's defining computer mainframe project: the System 360. In this capacity he oversaw the implementation of all of the initial models in the System 360 family. In 1965 he became director of IBM's Advanced Computer Systems Lab in Menlo Park, CA.
Paley resigned from IBM in 1970 to become President of Raytheon Data Systems. In 1972 he left RDS to found Palyn Associates, a computer consulting and design services company, with Mike Flynn. Palyn (a conjunction of the two names) included several other partners at various times. Bob Domenico continues to manage Palyn; other partners at one time or another include Bob McClure, Stockton Gaines, Jerry Popek, Charlie Neuhauser, and George Rossmann. Palyn built the EMMY prototype computer and delivered it to Prof. Flynn at Stanford; the design was later sold to ICL who built a commercial version of EMMY under the label ME 29. The ME 29 was a widely used/sold machine in Europe for small commercial applications. Palyn grew to become a well known name in the field, eventually extending its scope to include venture capital management and strategic market planning.
Max Paley died on September 18, 1998, after a short hospitalization.
(many thanks to Mike Flynn for providing this biography of Max Paley)
(From Bob Evans article:) Approached by a Japanese firm to acquire the designs of IBM's planned 308x series, Paley cooperated with the FBI in a sting operation that led to federal indictments against two Japanese firms as well as an out-of-court settlement favorable to IBM in a civil lawsuit.
"After graduating in Mathematics from Imperial College, London in 1957 Brian Randell joined the Atomic Power Division, English Electric Company Ltd., where by 1964 he was head of the Automatic Programming Section, and responsible for the production of a number of compilers, including the Whetstone Algol compiler described in the book 'Algol 6o Implementation' (co-authored with Lawford Russell). In 1964 he joined IBM and worked mainly at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center on the design of an ultra-high-speed computer, and then on an investigation of the design of both the hardware and software of a large multi-processing system.
In 1969 he took up his present position as Professor, and Director of Research, at the Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. At Newcastle he has been Principal Investigator on a succession of research projects in reliability and security funded by the Science Research Council (now Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), the Ministry of Defence, and the European Strategic Programme of Research in Information Technology (ESPRIT), leading the team which first investigated the possibility of software fault tolerance, and introduced the 'recovery block' concept. Subsequent major developments have included the Newcastle Connection, and the prototype Distributed Secure System. Most recently he has had the role of Project Director of the ESPRIT Long Term Research Project on Design for Validation, and of CaberNet, the ESPRIT Network of Excellence on Distributed Computing Systems Architectures. Professor Randell is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a Chartered Engineer, and a founding member of IFIP Working Group 10.4 (Dependability and Fault Tolerance). He has published nearly two hundred technical papers and reports, and is co-author or editor of seven books."
"I started with IBM in 1956, fresh out of RPI, with a BS degree in Physics. During my 9 years in Poughkeepsie I worked on several machines including the 750, a machine IBM never produced, the 7090 and finally the Model 50 in the 360 Series. In 1965 I joined the ACS Lab in California and was there until 1969 when I left IBM to start a new computer company called Mascor (Multi Access System Corp.) This was a short-lived venture and when the company folded in 1970 I became a founding partner of Idanta Partners, a national venture capital firm. At Idanta I was involved with the seed capital round in Prime Computer and served on the Board for four years. I left Idanta in 1973 and became an independent consultant to computer companies, users of large systems and venture capital firms looking to invest in the computer technology sector. I continued in this endeavor for 14 years before rejoining Idanta Partners in 1988. During my second stint with Idanta I was involved with the firm's investment in Stac Electronics and served on the Board for a number of years. In 1994 I joined InnoCal, a new venture capital firm, funded by the California State Teachers Pension Fund. I continue as a general partner in the firm today."
"Since 1988 Herbert Schorr has been Executive Director of the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California. He is a graduate of the City University of New York and received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1963. He joined IBM after a year each at Cambridge University as a post-doctoral fellow and Columbia University as Assistant Professor. Dr. Schorr's career at IBM included development, research, and corporate planning assignments. Specific positions he has held include: Vice President, Product and Service Planning, Advanced Systems Development Division; Vice President, Systems Research Division; and ES Director, Advanced Systems Enterprise Systems. In his last position at IBM he had product, Marketing, and development responsibilities for AI within IBM, and similar responsibilities for image-enhanced systems."
"Edward H. Sussenguth was educated at Harvard College (A.B., 1954), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S. in electrical engineering, 1957), and Harvard University (Ph.D. in applied mathematics, 1964). Immediately after college he served a three-year tour as a naval officer in the Pacific Fleet. He joined IBM in 1959 in its Research Division where, for the next ten years, he was involved in the architecture and design of high performance computers, formal description languages, and information retrieval.
In 1970 he joined the newly formed Communications Systems Division as Director of Architecture and Planning, a position he held until 1981. During that time his responsibilities included the architecture and strategic planning of Systems Network Architecture (SNA), which has become the most successful set of computer-terminal networking products in the world. In 1981 he was appointed an IBM Fellow, the highest technical position in IBM. As a Fellow, one is allowed to work on research projects of one's own choosing; Dr. Sussenguth's fellowship was devoted to high-speed (mega- and giga-bit per second) communications and their architectural and product implications.
In 1989, he was appointed to be the first President of the IBM Academy of Technology, a group of IBM's most highly qualified scientists and engineers. He held that position until he retired in 1990.
In addition to his managerial and executive positions, Dr. Sussenguth has published widely in technical journals and holds twelve patents. He has been an advisor to the National Bureau of Standards and several universities. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He received the 1988 Data Communications Interface Award and the 1989 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal, both for 'outstanding leadership in computer networking.' In 1992 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering."
pages on Ed Sussenguth from other web sites: 1997 Data Communications article
Biography from Commercial Data Servers:
Mr. Williams received his undergraduate degree in Industrial Management from the University of Washington and his MBA in Investments and Corporate Finance from the New York University Graduate School of Business in 1968.
After graduation Mr. Williams joined IBM Advanced Computing Systems Group in Menlo Park, California, as the Financial Administrator. Mr. Williams left IBM Corporation to co-found Amdahl Corporation with Gene Amdahl. Since his 1972 departure from Amdahl Corporation, Mr. Williams has founded, co-founded, or was one of the initial investors of over 50 companies in the electronics and health care industries, including Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Ventritex, Inc., GRID Systems, Viasoft and Netframe.
Mr. Williams currently serves as a Director of the following companies: Retroperfusion Systems, Inc., Neuroperfusion Systems, Image Scans, Inc., and FMX Vision. In addition, Mr. Williams was associated in the founding and financing of two banks: University National Bank and Trust Co. and Silicon Valley Bank.
The combined sales of the 50 companies Mr. Williams has founded, co-founded, or as the initial investor now exceed $2.5 billion. Almost all of the investment activity has been "seed money" or first round financing divided equally between life science and data/information processing.
Of the 50 companies, 15 have failed or were liquidated. Thirteen are now traded on the three national markets as a result of an initial public offering or acquisition. Two more are expected to enter registration during 1995. Discussions are underway which could result in the merger of two others.
other folks to track down
Stanley F. Anderson
Augustine M. Baptiste
Tien-Chi Chen
Bob Domenico
Stephen Goldstein
Robert R. Hanko
Leo J. Hasbrouck
D. Helman
Dick Holleran
Jacob R. Johnson
Fred B. Jones
Dan G. Keehn
John D. Kyffin
Robert Litwiller
Ralph E. Love
John F. Parsons
Ralph E. Pickett
Robert Rew
Prem Shivdasani
Jim Steranko
George E. Werner
John Wierzbicki
William P. Wissick
High density of honors for people involved with ACS:
At least five IBM Fellows:
Fran Allen (?), Gene Amdahl (1965), John Cocke (?), Harwood Kolsky (1969),
Ed Sussenguth (1981).
At least four IEEE Fellows:
Gene Amdahl (1970), Lynn Conway (1985), Ed Sussenguth (1985),
and T.C. Chen (1977)
At least one Sloan Fellow:
John Adler (1970)
At least one Fellow of the British Computer Society:
Brian Randell (?).
At least five National Academy of Engineering members:
Fran Allen (1987), Gene Amdahl (1967), John Cocke (1979), Lynn Conway (1989),
Ed Sussenguth (1992).
At least one National Academy of Science member: John Cocke (1992).
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