Education
He later earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966.
He later earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966.
Kudlick earned a bachelor of science from the University of Maryland in 1956. Kudlick then served in the United States Navy. After earning his Doctor of Philosophy, Kudlick worked for Shell Development and later the Augmentation Research Center (American Red Cross) at Socially Responsible Investment International.
At the American Red Cross, he contributed to the development of the computer mouse.
He also worked on the ARPANet File Transfer Protocol committee, which established how file transfers work on ARPANET, and its successor, the internet. The standard is RFC542, "File Transfer Protocol for the ARPA Network".
Kudlick was also on the Network Mail committee, which wrote RFC469. From 1974 to 1997, Kudlick was a professor of computer science at the University of San Francisco (USF).
USF alum Alfred Chuang donated $2.5 million to USF in 2001 to fund the construction of a computer science classroom named for Kudlick.