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1 de feb. de 2020 · Doug McIlroy. McIlroy (left) with former colleague Dennis Ritchie at the Japan Prize Foundation in May 2011. Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer, best known for having originally developed Unix pipes, software componentry, and several Unix tools, such as spell, diff, sort, join, graph ...
15 de mar. de 2024 · Doug McIlroy ’53: Applied physicist to programming pioneer. March 15, 2024. While at Bell Labs, M. Douglas McIlroy '53 participated in the genesis of the Unix operating system. His contributions were a radical change from the way programs were written in the 1950s and 1960s and are ubiquitous in computer programs today. Read More.
The concept of pipelines was championed by Douglas McIlroy at Unix's ancestral home of Bell Labs, during the development of Unix, shaping its toolbox philosophy. It is named by analogy to a physical pipeline. A key feature of these pipelines is their "hiding of internals" (Ritchie & Thompson, 1974).
6 de nov. de 2019 · Doug McIlroy was a key figure in computing at the Bell Telephone Laboratories from the 1950s into the 1990s, most especially to the development of Unix. In this audio-recorded oral history interview, the second of two parts, he discusses the aftermath of the Multics effort at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and the origins of what would soon ...
McIlroy:--a trade that’s vanished from the face of the Earth now. And I still own a nice block and tackle that he bought at the time. McIlroy: And a bilge pump for our boats and our Adirondack camp, which incidentally my father designed for his father the year-- in 1924, the year after my father graduated.
Doug McIlroy, Boston, Massachusetts, 2015. Doug McIlroy was the head of Bell Lab’s Computing Techniques Research Department which created the Unix operating system. McIlroy is widely credited with creating the Unix computing concept known as “pipes” (short for pipelines) which allows users to connect two or more software tools together in ...
