Career
Organick described the Burroughs large systems in an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) monograph of which he was the sole author, covering the work of Robert (Bob) Barton and others He also wrote a monograph about the Multics timesharing operating system. By the mid 1970s he had become "the foremost expositor writer of computer science".
He published 19 books
He was editor of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computing Surveys (ISSN 0360-0300) between 1973 and 1976. He died on December 21, 1985 after a long battle with leukemia.
He taught at the University of Utah, where a Memorial Lecture series was established in his name.
