Allan Lee Scherr (born November 18, 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American computer scientist known for his work on time-sharing operating systems and for leading the original development of IBM's MVS operating system for mainframe computers. As a graduate student in MIT's Project MAC, his doctoral research measuring and modeling the performance of the Compatible Time-Sharing System earned him the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1975. He joined IBM in 1965, worked on the architecture of the System/370, received the IBM Outstanding Contribution Award for TSO design in 1971, and was named an IBM Fellow in 1984; he later became senior vice president of software engineering at EMC Corporation.
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Allan Lee Scherr (born November 18, 1940) is an American computer scientist notable for his work in time-sharing operating systems and leading the original development of the IBM MVS operating system, used on IBM mainframe computers.
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Allan Lee Scherr
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Wikidata P166 (award received): Grace Murray Hopper Award.
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