Rudd Canaday

Rudd Canaday
Alma materHarvard University (B A., 1959)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1964)
OccupationsComputer scientist, engineer and business executive
Scientific career
Institutions

Rudd Canaday is an American computer systems engineer and a previous member of the technical staff at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, credited to co-develop the initial design of the Unix file system.[1][2] In 2015 he joined a Palo Alto based tech startup, Entefy, as a Senior Architect & Engineer.[3][4]

Research and career

Canaday received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Physics from Harvard University in 1959 and received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964.

In the 1960s, Ken Thompson developed a game called Space Travel on Multics. Bell Labs left the Multics project in 1969, so Thompson ported the game to FORTRAN for the GECOS operating system. That version was awkward and slow; Thompson found a little-used PDP-7 with a graphics display, and proceeded to write development tools for the PDP-7 and use them to port the game. The development environment was awkward, so Thompson decided to design his own hierarchical file system for the machine, along with Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIlroy and Canaday.[5] He started developing an operating system to use with that file system. Joe Ossanna joined Thompson, Ritchie and Canaday to develop the operating system, called Unics, later named Unix.[6][7]

In 1973, Canaday along with Evan Ivie started developing the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) to support a computer center for a 1000-employee Bell Labs division, which would be the largest Unix site for several years.[8]

Selected publications

  • Canaday, Rudd H.; Harrison, R. D.; Ivie, Evan L.; Ryder, J. L.; Wehr, L. A. (1974). "A back-end computer for data base management". Communications of the ACM. 17 (10): 575–582. doi:10.1145/355620.361172.
  • Canaday, Rudd H. (30 November 1965). "Two-dimensional iterative logic". Proceedings of the November 30--December 1, 1965, fall joint computer conference, Part I on XX - AFIPS '65 (Fall, part I). AFIPS '65 (Fall, part I). Las Vegas, Nevada: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 343–353. doi:10.1145/1463891.1463931. ISBN 978-1-4503-7885-7. S2CID 31075319.

See also

References

  1. ^ Anthes, Gary (27 July 2009). "Unix Turns 40". Computerworld. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  2. ^ Canaday, Rudd H. (30 November 1965). "Two-dimensional iterative logic". Proceedings of the November 30--December 1, 1965, fall joint computer conference, Part I on XX - AFIPS '65 (Fall, part I). AFIPS '65 (Fall, part I). Las Vegas, Nevada: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 343–353. doi:10.1145/1463891.1463931. ISBN 978-1-4503-7885-7. S2CID 31075319.
  3. ^ "Rudd Canaday, LinkedIn".
  4. ^ "Co-Inventor of UNIX, Dr. Rudd Canaday, Joins Palo Alto Tech Startup, Entefy". Entefy Machine Intelligence & Productivity Solutions. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  5. ^ Toomey, Warren (28 November 2011). "The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Unix History, Who invented Unix". LivingInternet. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  7. ^ Ritchie, Dennis M. "Yes, A video game contributed to Unix Development". Harvard University. Archived from the original on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  8. ^ Dolotta, T. A.; Mashey, J. R. (13 October 1976). "An introduction to the Programmer's Workbench". ICSE '76: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Software engineering. Washington DC: IEEE Computer Society Press. pp. 164–168.
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