Maurice Karnaugh (October 4, 1924 - November 8, 2022) was an American physicist, mathematician, computer scientist and inventor born in New York City, who earned a BA in physics from City College of New York in 1948 and a PhD in physics from Yale University in 1952. He worked at Bell Labs from 1952 to 1966 and then at IBM until 1994, while also teaching part time at Polytechnic University of New York from 1980 to 1999. In 1953, while at Bell Labs, he invented the Karnaugh map, refining Edward Veitch's 1952 Veitch chart into a widely used graphical technique for simplifying Boolean functions in digital circuit design.
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Edward Veitch, Pioneers Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map: "Maurice Karnaugh introduced the technique in 1953 as a refinement of Edward W. Veitch's 1952 Veitch chart." No dedicated Karnaugh-map concept entity exists in this atlas to hub through, so written as a direct pioneer-to-pioneer edge, earlier work as FROM per this atlas's predecessor-of convention.
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1. Wikidata: Maurice Karnaugh
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