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Harry Huskey (Harry Douglas Huskey) was born on 19 January, 1916 in Whittier, North Carolina, U.S., is an American computer design pioneer. Discover Harry Huskey's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 101 years old?

Popular As Harry Douglas Huskey
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Age 101 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 19 January, 1916
Birthday 19 January
Birthplace Whittier, North Carolina, U.S.
Date of death 9 April, 2017
Died Place Santa Cruz, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Velma Roeth (died 1991); Nancy Grindstaff (m. 1994, died 2015)

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1916

Harry Douglas Huskey (January 19, 1916 – April 9, 2017) was an American computer design pioneer.

Huskey was born in Whittier, in the Smoky Mountains region of North Carolina and grew up in Idaho.

He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics at the University of Idaho.

He was the first member of his family to attend college.

1943

He gained his Master's and then his PhD in 1943 from the Ohio State University on Contributions to the Problem of Geöcze.

1945

Huskey taught mathematics to U.S. Navy students at the University of Pennsylvania and then worked part-time on the early ENIAC and EDVAC computers in 1945.

This work represented his first formal introduction to computers, according to his obituary in The New York Times.

He visited the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom for a year and worked on the Pilot ACE computer with Alan Turing and others.

He was also involved with the EDVAC and SEAC computer projects.

1949

Huskey designed and managed the construction of the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at the National Bureau of Standards in Los Angeles (1949–1953).

He also designed the G-15 computer for Bendix Aviation Corporation, a 950 lb machine, operable by one person.

He had one at his home that is now in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

1950

Huskey appeared with a junk dealer as the third pair of contestants in the 10 May 1950 episode of Groucho Marx's radio show You Bet Your Life.

He was described as the designer of an "electronic brain".

They selected the "state category" and missed the final question when they failed to identify Iowa as the state north of Missouri.

1954

After five years at the National Bureau of Standards, Huskey joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1954 and then University of California, Santa Cruz from 1966.

1963

While at Berkeley, he supervised the research of pioneering programming language designer Niklaus Wirth, who gained his PhD in 1963.

During 1963-1964 Prof. Huskey participated in establishing the Computer Center at IIT Kanpur and convened a meeting there with many pioneers of computing technology.

Participants included Forman Acton of Princeton University, Robert Archer of Case Institute of Technology, S. Barton of CDC, Australia, S. Beltran from the Centro de Calculo in Mexico City, John Makepeace Bennett of the University of Sydney, Launor Carter of SDC - author of the subsequent Carter Report on Computer Technology for Schools, David Evans of UC Berkeley, Bruce Gilchrist of IBM-SBC, Clay Perry of UC San Diego, Sigeiti Moriguti of the University of Tokyo, Gio Wiederhold, also of UC Berkeley, Adriaan van Wijngaarden of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam, Maurice Wilkes of Cambridge University.

1967

He cofounded the computer and information science program at UC Santa Cruz in 1967.

He became director of its computer center.

1986

In 1986, UC Santa Cruz named him professor emeritus.

Huskey was Professor Emeritus at the University of California after his retirement at the age of 70 in 1986.

1991

Huskey married Velma Roeth (died 1991) in 1939 and had four children.

1994

In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Dag Spicer, senior curator at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, "described Dr. Huskey as a 'Zelig-like character, present at some of computing's greatest moments.'"

In 1994, he married Nancy Grindstaff (died in 2016).

He lived in Santa Cruz, California.

2013

In 2013, the Computer History Museum named him a Museum Fellow "for his seminal work on early and important computing systems and a lifetime of service to computer education."