Education
He has a 1963 Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics from New York University.
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He has a 1963 Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics from New York University.
He has conducted research in germanistics, language acquisition, and computer languages. After an intense academic career serving as professor and dean at several universities, he is now largely retired. He has also been Executive Director of both the USENIX Association and the Sun User Group, and Vice President of the Free Software Foundation.
In addition, he has worked for several high tech startups.
From 1987 to 1996, he was Managing Editor of the technical journal Computing Systems (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press and the USENIX Association). He is best known for his books on the history of computing, particularly A Quarter Century of Uniplex Information and Computing System and Casting The Net (a history of the Internet up to 1995).