- Born
- Died
- Birth nameFernando José Corbató
- Nickname
- Corby
- Fernando Corbató was born on July 1, 1926 in Oakland, California, USA. He was married to Isabel Blandford and Emily Gluck. He died on July 12, 2019 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpousesIsabel Blandford(1962 - 1973) (her death, 2 children)Emily Gluck(? - July 12, 2019) (his death)
- Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at M.I.T. and pioneer of the design and development of multiple-access computer systems, he received in 1990 the A. M. Turing Award.
- He developed the concept of shared computer operating systems, and came up with the idea of controlling computer access with passwords. He is credited with laying the groundwork for Unix.
- At the time of his birth, his parents were graduate students at the University of California in Berkeley. The family moved to southern California when his father became a professor of Spanish literature at UCLA.
- He began working at the MIT Computation Center in 1956, when computers still involved vacuum tubes and punch cards.
- At age 17 he joined the Navy, where he became an electronics technician working on radar and sonar systems during WWII.
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