Career
He was the technical head of the Multics project at Bell Labs and later Executive Director of Research in the Information Systems Division of American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell laboratories Multics, whilst not particularly commercially successful in itself, directly inspired Ken Thompson to develop Unix. In the early 1960s, along with Robert Morris Senior and Doug McIlroy, he devised and played a computer game called Darwin (later known as Core War) on an International Business Machines Corporation 7090 at Bell laboratories
Later virus developers used the same technique to develop some viruses.
He is interred at National Cemetery Bourne, Massachusetts.
