Rudd Canaday
{{short description|American computer scientist and Business executive}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Rudd Canaday
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date =
| alma mater = Harvard University (B A., 1959)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1964)
| birth_place =
| death_date =
| death_place =
| occupation = Computer scientist, engineer and business executive
| networth =
| spouse =
| website =
| footnotes =
| children =
| module = {{Infobox scientist
| embed = yes
| work_institutions = {{hlist|Bell Telephone Laboratories|Entefy}}
}}
}}
Rudd Canaday is an American computer systems engineer and a previous member of the technical staff at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, credited to co-develop the initial design of the Unix file system.{{Cite web|last=Anthes|first=Gary|date=2009-07-27|title=Unix Turns 40|url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2551095/unix-turns-40.html|access-date=2021-06-30|website=Computerworld|language=en}}{{Cite conference|last=Canaday|first=Rudd H.|book-title=Proceedings of the November 30--December 1, 1965, fall joint computer conference, Part I on XX - AFIPS '65 (Fall, part I) |title=Two-dimensional iterative logic |date=1965-11-30|series=AFIPS '65 (Fall, part I)|location=Las Vegas, Nevada|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|pages=343–353|doi=10.1145/1463891.1463931|isbn=978-1-4503-7885-7|s2cid=31075319 |doi-access=free}} In 2015 he joined a Palo Alto based tech startup, Entefy, as a Senior Architect & Engineer.{{Cite web|title=Rudd Canaday, LinkedIn|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudd-canaday-62028067/}}{{Cite web|date=2015-01-22|title=Co-Inventor of UNIX, Dr. Rudd Canaday, Joins Palo Alto Tech Startup, Entefy|url=https://www.entefy.com/blog/post/186/co-inventor-of-unix-dr-rudd-canaday-joins-palo-alto-tech-startup-entefy|access-date=2021-12-28|website=Entefy Machine Intelligence & Productivity Solutions|language=en}}
Research and career
Canaday received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Physics from Harvard University in 1959 and received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964.
In 1960s, Ken Thompson developed a game called Space Travel on Multics file system, which ran very slowly on the machine. This caused Thompson to design his own hierarchical file system along with Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIlroy and Canaday.{{Cite web|title=Rudd Canaday|url=https://cdn.facesofopensource.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/23070706/faces.RuddCanaday17390.web_.jpg|access-date=2021-06-30|website=Faces of Open Source|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix|access-date=2021-06-30|website=IEEE Spectrum|first=Warren|last=Toomey|date=28 November 2011 |language=en}} Joe Ossanna also joined Thompson, Ritchie and Canaday to program the operating system called Unics, later named Unix.{{Cite web|title=Unix History, Who invented Unix|url=https://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix_dev.htm|access-date=2021-06-30|website=LivingInternet|language=en-US}}
In 1973, Canaday along with Evan Ivie started developing the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) to support a computer center for a 1000-employee Bell Labs division, which would be the largest Unix site for several years.{{Cite conference |last1=Dolotta |first1=T. A. |last2=Mashey |first2=J. R. |date=1976-10-13 |title=An introduction to the Programmer's Workbench |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/800253.807669 |book-title=ICSE '76: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Software engineering |location=Washington DC |publisher=IEEE Computer Society Press |pages=164–168}}
= Selected publications =
- Canaday, Rudd H., R. D. Harrison, Evan L. Ivie, J. L. Ryder, and L. A. Wehr. "A back-end computer for data base management." Communications of the ACM 17, no. 10 (1974): 575-582.
- Canaday, Rudd H. "Two-dimensional iterative logic." In Proceedings of the November 30—December 1, 1965, fall joint computer conference, part I, pp. 343–353. 1965.
See also
References
External links
- [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudd-canaday-62028067/ LinkedIn profile]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDSc-ziN8E0 Why the co-inventor of Unix joined Entefy] (Youtube video with narration by Rudd Canaday)
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Canaday, Rudd}}
Category:American computer scientists
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
{{Scientist-stub}}