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Fernando Corbato
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Fernando Corbato was an American computer scientist who pioneered time-sharing operating systems at MIT. He led development of the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), demonstrated in 1961, and led the Multics development project at MIT Project MAC from its beginning in 1963 into the mid-1970s, work that influenced Unix and modern operating systems, including their hierarchical file systems. He is also credited with the first use of passwords to secure access to files on a shared computer system. He received the 1990 ACM Turing Award for organizing the concepts and leading the development of CTSS and Multics.
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Led the Multics development project at MIT Project MAC from its beginning in 1963 into the mid-1970s; Multics was a joint MIT, Bell Labs and General Electric project rather than a single inventor's work.
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Fernando Corbato led the Multics project at MIT (Project MAC), the pioneering time-sharing operating system that directly influenced the design of Unix.
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Fernando Jose Corbato was born on July 1, 1926, in Oakland, California, to Hermenegildo Corbato, a Spanish literature professor from Villarreal, Spain, and Charlotte Corbato (nee Jensen), a Danish American.
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Fernando Jose "Corby" Corbato (July 1, 1926 - July 12, 2019) was an American computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems. He won the 1990 ACM Turing Award.
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