Harry Huskey

Background

Huskey was born in the Smoky Mountains region of North Carolina and grew up in Idaho.

Education

He gained his Master"s and then his Doctor of Philosophy in 1943 from the Ohio State University on Contributions to the Problem of Geocze.

Career

He received his Bachelor"s degree at the University of Idaho. Huskey taught mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania and then worked part-time on the early ENIAC computer in 1945. He visited the National Physical Laboratory (National Physical Laboratory) in the United Kingdom for a year and worked on the Pilot American Council on Exercise computer with Alan Turing and others

He was also involved with the EDVAC and SEAC computer projects.

Huskey designed and managed the construction of the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at the National Bureau of Standards in Los Angeles (1949–1953). He also designed the G15 computer for Bendix Aviation Corporation, which could perhaps be considered as the first "personal" computer in the world.

He had one at his home that is now in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, District of Columbia After five years at the National Bureau of Standards, Huskey joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1954 and then University of California, Santa Cruz from 1966. While at Berkeley, he supervised the research of pioneering programming language designer Niklaus Wirth, who gained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1963.

During 1963-1964 Professor

Huskey participated in establishing the Computer Center at IIT Kanpur and convened a meeting there with many pioneers of computing technology. Participants included Forman Acton of Princeton University, Robert Archer of Case Institute of Technology, South. Barton of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Australia, South. Beltran from the Centro de Calculo in Mexico City, John Makepeace Bennett of the University of Sydney, Launor Carter of Stage Directors and Choreographers - author of the subsequent Carter Report on Computer Technology for Schools, David Evans of University of California Berkeley, Bruce Gilchrist of International Business Machines Corporation-Session Border Controllers , Clay Perry of University of California San Diego, Sigeiti Moriguti of the University of Tokyo, Adriaan van Wijngaarden of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam, Maurice Wilkes of Cambridge University, and Gio Wiederhold, also of University of California Berkeley. Professor Huskey is now Professor Emeritus at the University of California, after his retirement at the age of 70 in 1986.

In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Achievements

• In 2013, the Computer History Museum named him a Museum Fellow "for his seminal work on early and important computing systems and a lifetime of service to computer education.".