Edward H. Sussenguth
{{Short description|American engineer (1932 - 2015)}}
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| birth_place = Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States
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| death_place = Amelia Island, Florida, United States
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| education = B.A.; Harvard University (1954)
M.S.; MIT (1959)
Ph.D.; Harvard (1964)
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Computer engineering
| institutions = United States Navy
IBM
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| significant_projects = Systems Network Architecture (SNA)
IBM Advanced Computer System (ACS)
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| significant_awards = Fellow, IEEE
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IEEE Simon Ramo Medal
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Edward H. Sussenguth Jr. (October 10, 1932 – November 22, 2015) was an American engineer and former IBM employee, known best for his work on Systems Network Architecture (SNA). He was also a contributor to the architecture of IBM's Advanced Computer System (ACS).{{cite web |title=Dr. Edward Henry Sussenguth II | date=22 November 2015 |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/edward-sussenguth-obituary?pid=176613428 |publisher=News and Observer |access-date=14 January 2021}}
Biography
Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Sussenguth received a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) in 1954 from Harvard University, a Master of Science (M.S.) in electrical engineering in 1959 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AUriAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA37 |title=The Michigan Technic |date=1960 |volume=79 |page=37}} and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1964 from Harvard.{{citation |title=IEEE Membership Directory |publisher=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |date=1995 |page=336}}
After he served at the United States Navy as an officer in the Pacific Fleet, Sussenguth joined IBM in 1959.{{cite web |url=http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/computer/johncocke.htm#eds |title=John Cocke: A Retrospective by Friends |last=Van Deusen |first=Mary S. |date=2007 |website=InterMedia Enterprises |location=Boston, Massachusetts |access-date=2020-04-03}} Sussenguth started in 1959 in the Research Division in the development of formal language descriptions.
This work led to Sussenguth meeting Kenneth E. Iverson and Adin Falkoff. Iverson had developed a formal notation, which was documented in a book A Programming Language. It was the original version of the programming language APL. Chapter 2 of A Programming Language had used Iverson's notation to describe the IBM 7090 computer.{{cite web |last=Iverson |first=Kenneth E. |author-link=Kenneth E. Iverson |title=Letter to J.K. Tuttle |date=14 December 1983 |url=https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/JKTletter.htm |access-date=16 April 2016}}{{cite book |last=Iverson |first=Kenneth E. |author-link=Kenneth E. Iverson |title=A Programming Language |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-471-43014-8 |date=1962 |url=https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL.htm |access-date=9 April 2016}} In early 1963, Falkoff, later joined by Iverson and Sussenguth, proceeded to use the notation to produce a formal description of the IBM System/360 computer then under design.{{cite journal |last1=Falkoff |first1=Adin D. |author-link=Adin Falkoff |last2=Iverson |first2=Kenneth E. |author2-link=Kenneth E. Iverson |title=The Design of APL |journal=IBM Journal of Research and Development |volume=17 |number=4 |date=July 1973 |url=https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLDesign.htm |access-date=9 April 2016 |doi=10.1147/rd.174.0324 |pages=324–334}} The result was published in 1964 in a double issue of the IBM Systems Journal,{{cite journal |last1=Falkoff |first1=Adin D. |author-link=Adin Falkoff |last2=Iverson |first2=Kenneth E. |author2-link=Kenneth E. Iverson |last3=Sussenguth |first3=Edward H. |title=A Formal Description of System/360 |journal=IBM Systems Journal |volume=3 |issue=2 |date=1964 |pages=198–261 |url=https://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/032/falkoff.pdf |doi=10.1147/sj.32.0198 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813132807/https://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/032/falkoff.pdf |archive-date=2006-08-13}} thereafter known as the "grey book" or "grey manual". The book was used in a course on computer systems design at the IBM Systems Research Institute.
In 1965, Sussenguth joined the IBM Advanced Computer Systems project (ACS-1) to work on high performance computers. In 1970, he became Director of Architecture and Planning in the new Communications Systems Division, where he turned his attention to networking and high speed communications. In the last year before his retirement in 1990, he was appointed first President of the IBM Academy of Technology, which he held for a year.{{cite news |last=Smotherman |first=Mark |url=http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_people.html |title=People Involved with ACS |website=School of Computing |publisher=Clemson University |date=April 17, 2011}}
Sussenguth was an advisor to the National Bureau of Standards and a visiting professor at some universities. He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and received multiple awards and honors, including: in 1981, an IBM Fellowship{{cite news |title=IBM Names Three Fellows For Technical Contributions |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U2Da-O9RAgIC&pg=RA1-PA70 |newspaper=Computerworld |date=May 25, 1981 |access-date=6 April 2013}} for "technical leadership in the development of system network architecture"; in 1988, the Data Communications Interface Award; in 1989, the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal; in 1992, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (computer science).
Publications
Sussenguth has authored and co-authored multiple publications,{{DBLP |name=Edward H. Sussenguth Jr.}} including:
- {{Cite journal |last=Sussenguth Jr. |first=Edward H. |title=Use of tree structures for processing files |journal=Communications of the ACM |volume=6 |issue=5 |date=1963 |pages=272–279|doi=10.1145/366552.366600 |s2cid=16260819 |doi-access=free }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Salton |first1=Gerard |author-link=Gerard Salton |last2=Sussenguth Jr. |first2=Edward H. |title=Some flexible information retrieval systems using structure matching procedures |journal=Proceedings of the Spring Joint Computer Conference |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |date=April 21–23, 1964}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Sussenguth |first=Edward H. |title=A Graph-Theoretic Algorithm for Matching Chemical Structures |journal=Journal of Chemical Documentation |volume=5 |issue=1 |date=1965 |pages=36–43|doi=10.1021/c160016a007 }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Jarema |first1=David R. |last2=Sussenguth Jr. |first2=Edward H. |url=http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/255/ibmrd2505E.pdf |title=IBM data communications: a quarter century of evolution and progress |journal=IBM Journal of Research and Development |volume=25 |issue=5 |date=1981 |pages=391–404|doi=10.1147/rd.255.0391 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.nae.edu/27882.aspx National Academy of Engineering (NAE): Dr. Edward H. Sussenguth]
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Category:21st-century American engineers
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:MIT School of Engineering alumni
Category:People from Holyoke, Massachusetts
Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering