1. Harry Douglas Huskey was an American computer design pioneer.
16 Facts About Harry Huskey
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Harry Huskey received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics at the University of Idaho.
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Harry Huskey was the first member of his family to attend college.
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Harry Huskey gained his Master's and then his PhD in 1943 from the Ohio State University on Contributions to the Problem of Geocze.
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Harry Huskey taught mathematics to US Navy students at the University of Pennsylvania and then worked part-time on the early ENIAC and EDVAC computers in 1945.
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Harry Huskey visited the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom for a year and worked on the Pilot ACE computer with Alan Turing and others.
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Harry Huskey was involved with the EDVAC and SEAC computer projects.
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Harry Huskey designed and managed the construction of the Standards Western Automatic Computer at the National Bureau of Standards in Los Angeles.
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Harry Huskey designed the G-15 computer for Bendix Aviation Corporation, a 950 pounds machine, operable by one person.
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Harry Huskey had one at his home that is in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
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Harry Huskey cofounded the computer and information science program at UC Santa Cruz in 1967.
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Harry Huskey participated in establishing the Computer Center at IIT Kanpur and convened a meeting there with many pioneers of computing technology.
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Harry Huskey was Professor Emeritus at the University of California after his retirement at the age of 70 in 1986.
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Harry Huskey married Velma Roeth in 1939 and had four children.
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Harry Huskey appeared with a junk dealer as the third pair of contestants in the 10 May 1950 episode of Groucho Marx's radio show You Bet Your Life.
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Harry Huskey was described as the designer of an "electronic brain".