Doug McIlroy '53: Applied physicist to programming pioneer
March 15, 2024
March 15, 2024
ITHACA, New York, March 15 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Nearly everyone has benefitted from the work that M. Douglas McIlroy '53 accomplished during his 70-year career. And yet, his name is not widely known.
McIlroy - mathematician, engineer and programmer - graduated with a B.E.P. degree in engineering physics from the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell, where he became fascinated with computers.
He spent most of his 4 . . .
Nearly everyone has benefitted from the work that M. Douglas McIlroy '53 accomplished during his 70-year career. And yet, his name is not widely known.
McIlroy - mathematician, engineer and programmer - graduated with a B.E.P. degree in engineering physics from the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell, where he became fascinated with computers.
He spent most of his 4 . . .