Elliott Organick

{{Short description|American computer scientist (1925–1985)}}

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| birth_date = February 25, 1925

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|12|21|1925|02|25}}

| death_place = Shreveport, Louisiana

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| workplaces = Manhattan Project
M. W. Kellogg Company
United Gas Corporation
University of Houston
University of Michigan
MIT CSAIL
University of Utah

| alma_mater = University of Michigan B.S. M.S. Ph.D.

| doctoral_advisor = Donald L. Katz
George Granger Brown

| thesis_title = Prediction of Hydrocarbon Vapor-Liquid Equilibria

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| thesis_year = 1950

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| known_for = Founder of ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

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| awards = SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education (1985)

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Elliott Irving Organick (February 25, 1925 – December 21, 1985) was a computer scientist and pioneer in operating systems development and education. He was considered "the foremost expositor writer of computer science", and was instrumental in founding the ACM Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education.

{{cite journal

| journal = Communications of the ACM

| title = Elliott I. Organick (1925–1985)

| author = Lindstrom, G.

| volume = 29

| issue = 3

| publisher = ACM

| page = 231

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| year = 1986

| doi=10.1145/5666.6325

| s2cid = 46437633

| doi-access = free

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