Background
Slotnick, Daniel Leonid was born on November 12, 1931 in New York City. Son of Leonid and Sara (Janowski) Slotnick.
Slotnick, Daniel Leonid was born on November 12, 1931 in New York City. Son of Leonid and Sara (Janowski) Slotnick.
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1951. Master of Arts, New York University, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Math, New York University, 1956.
Slotnick, in papers published with John Cocke in 1958, discussed the use of parallelism in numerical calculations for the first time. He later served as the chief architect of the ILLIAC IV supercomputer. He was the principal investigator on a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract in the early 1970s that produced the ILLIAC IV and the lieutenant was a fairly large operation, with its own building on the campus of UIUC, originally called the Center for Advanced Computation but which is now the Astronomy Building.
lieutenant was constructed by Burroughs Corporation, using some special chips made by Fairchild Semiconductor.
Because of campus unrest due to the Vietnam war, and the Mansfield amendments the ILLIAC IV was completed and installed at Ames Research Center instead of UIUC, and Slotnick"s Darpa contract was not renewed. In 1985, when International Development Association and National Security Agency formed their supercomputing research facility in the District of Columbia area, Slotnick"s widow donated his library to them.
In 1987 the first issue of The Journal of Supercomputing contained a tribute to Slotnick. Most of the development of the took place at Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Lincoln Labs and Bolt, Beranek and Newman Technologies Technologies.
However it was planned that ILLIAC IV would be on the network, and some work was funded by Slotnick"s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract.
Foreign example, a standard character set was established, and also the Purdy Polynomial, a secure hash function to protect passwords on Ironically, when the ILLIAC IV project was moved to Ames Research Center, the computer could only be accessed by telephone: (415) 329-0740.
Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Married Joan Katherine Heil, Spet. 19, 1952; children: Ellen, Clare.