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Name: Today in 1926 #ACMTuringAward recipient Fernando J. Corbato was born. He received the award in 199
Uploaded: 2026-07-01T14:02:09.460Z
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Description: Today in 1926 #ACMTuringAward recipient Fernando J. Corbato was born. He received the award in 1990 for his pioneering work organizing the concepts and leading the development of the general-purpose

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Today in 1926 #ACMTuringAward recipient Fernando J. Corbato was born. He received the award in 1990 for his pioneering work organizing the concepts and leading the development of the general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems, CTSS and Multics. Many of Corbato’s ideas are now ingrained in computer science ideology, including: dynamic linking; hierarchical file systems; and paging and segmentation In this 2018 interview, Corbato explains how he developed Multics in 1963: https://lnkd.in/eM3dKsZ8 #OTD #ComputerScience #Multics #CTSS #TuringAward

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