03/31/03

CTSS Creators and Users

Tom Van Vleck

I found an old file that listed people who worked on MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) and users who supported it. This list is dated 1973 and was used to generate a list of people invited to a ceremony at MIT celebrating the shutdown of the CTSS machine. The ceremony was in March 1974; I missed it because I was out of the country. They gave every attendee a little plaque made from a piece of a 1302 disk used on CTSS.

The list was generated from multiple sources, including names mentioned in old Project MAC and Computation Center progress reports, CTSS billing records, and the CTSS manual. Some of these folks have provided contact addresses on the Multicians list.

Creators

Allen, Janet	System
Anderson, David A.	System
Bailey, Michael J.	System
Bayles, Richard U.	System
Berry, Lucy Ann	CC
Bixby, Jim	System
Bjerstedt, William	System
Bjorkman, Elizabeth Quisenberry	System
Bos, Peter R.	System
Brooking, Wayne	IBM
Burner, Weston J.	Administration
Bush, Robert	IBM
Campbell, Robert H.	System
Cerrato, Richard	Operations
Chandler, Don	IBM
Child, Margaret E.	System
Christiansen,	IBM
Clancy, Gerald F.	System
Comeau, Les	IBM
Comer, Michael	System
Corbató, Fernando J.	Administration
Creasy, Robert	System
Crisman, Patricia A.	System
Cushing, Carole E.	System
Daggett, Marjorie M.	System
Daley, Robert C.	System
DePrisco, Robert	System
Degan, Robert A.	Operations
Dempsey, Timothy F.	Contributor
Dunten, Stanley D.	System
Edwards, Daniel J.	System
Evans, Arthur, Jr.	System
Fabry, Robert	System
Fano, Robert M.	Administration
Feldman, Clarence G.	Contributor
Fenichel, Robert R.	System
Garman, Charles C.	System
Geffner, Samuel	CC
Giesing, Fritz	IBM
Gordon, Jessica Hellwig	System
Gottlieb, Margery	System
Graham, Robert M.	System
Greenberger, Martin	Contributor
Hart, Robert G.	Administration
Hastings, Thomas N.	System
Jarvis, Vincent F.	Operations
Jones, Malcolm M.	Administration
Kliman, Edith M.	Documentation
Korn, Lyndalee	System
Kudlick, M.	RTTS
Licklider, Joseph C. R.	Administration
Lieberman, Arnold M.	System
Logcher, Robert D.	Contributor
Martin, Karolyn J.	System
Mathews, William D.	Contributor
McCarthy, John	System
McGowan, Don	IBM
Mills, Richard G.	Administration
Minsky, Marvin	CC
Morris, Noel I.	System
Morse, Philip M.	Administration
Moses, Joel	Contributor
Munday, Brian W.	RTTS
Nissen, Walter	Contributor
Odland, Leola	System
Oppert, Donald H.	System
Orenstein, Richard	System
Padlipsky, Michael A.	System
Podolsky, John	System
Poduska, J. William	System
Pouzin, Louis	System
Pugh, Alexander W., III	Contributor
Rappaport, Robert L.	System
Reeve, Christopher L.	Contributor
Roach, Roger A.	System
Rosenbaum, Susan L.	System
Rutchka, Alex	RTTS, System
Ryan, Leo J.	Operations
Saltzer, Jerome H.	System
Scherr, Alan L.	RTTS, System
Schroeder, Glenda	System
Sheldon, Robert C.	System
Skinner, Thomas P.	System
Smith, Patricia	System
Solomita, Michael V.	Operations
Spall, Judith W.	Documentation
Springer, Susan	Documentation
Steinberg, Joseph R.	Administration
Stotz, Robert H.	Contributor
Strachey, Christopher	Contributor
Teager, Herbert M.	RTTS
Thompson, Kenneth L.	Contributor
Thornhill, Daniel E.	Contributor
Tillman, Coyt C.	Contributor
True, Frederick	Operations
Van Vleck, Thomas H.	System
Vezza, Albert M.	Contributor
Wagner, Donald B.	System
Wagner, Mary R.	System
Weizenbaum, Joseph	Contributor
Widrig, Donald R.	System
Wiesner, Jerome B.	Administration
Wilde, Daniel U.	RTTS
Wolman, Barry	Contributor
Wright, Otis C.	RTTS
Zaborowski, Dorothy Shea	System

Users

Abkowitz, Martin	Naval Arch.
Bicknell, J.	Aero. & Astro.
Biemann, Klaus	Chemistry
Biggs, John M.	Civil Engineering
Bloomfield, Lincoln P.	Political Science
Bobrow, Daniel	EE
Bottiglia, W. F.	Modern Languages
Brackett, John W.	EE
Brammer, Harmon E.	MAC, EE
Brescia, Michael	ESL
Brown, Gordon S.	Dean, Engineering
Brown, Paul E.	CAES
Brown, Sanborn C.	Dean, Science
Bruce, James D.	EE
Cabral, Melvin L.	MAC
Carpenter, Richard	Sloan
Carroll, Donald C.	Sloan
Charney, Jule G.	Meteorology
Coons, Steven A.	Mechanical Engineering
Dempsey, Timothy F.	TIP
Denning, Peter	MAC
Dennis, Jack B.	MAC
Dertouzos, Michael	MAC
Donovan, John J.	MAC
Dumey, Arnold	MAC
Eacker, James H.	Mechanical Engineering
Fleisher, Aaron	City & Regional Planning
Forrester, Jay W.	Sloan
Forte, Allen	Humanities
Gerrity, Thomas P.	Sloan
Goldstein, Robert F.	MAC
Gorry, G. Anthony	Sloan
Gray, Paul E.	FAC
Hansen, Kent F.	Nuclear Engineering
Hart, Timothy P.	MAC
Hebalkar, Prakash	MAC
Henderson, D. Austin, Jr.	MAC
Henke, William F.	EE
Howard, Louis N.	Mathematics
Jessel, Peter	ESL, Intrex
Johnson, Timothy	Architecture
Johnston, D. D.	Metallurgy
Jordan, David M.	TIP
Kaplow, Roy	Metallurgy
Kessler, Myer M.	TIP
Klensin, John C.	Political Science
Kuh, Edwin V.	Economics
Kusik, Robert L.	Intrex
Lapin, Robert B.	ESL
Levinthal, Cyrus	Biology
Liu, Chung L.	MAC
Luconi, Fred L.	MAC
Matthews, Peter D.	Instrumentation
McElroy, Robert I.	Psychology
McIlroy, M. Douglas	Multics
McIntosh, Stuart	Political Science
McMains, Wren	Architecture
McNeil, Donald	Biology
Minsky, Marvin A.	MAC, AI
Morris, Robert	Multics
Negroponte, Nicholas	Architecture
Ness, David N.	Sloan
Neumann, Peter G.	Multics
Newton, George C.	ESL
Nissen, Walter F.	TIP
Ossanna, Joseph F.	Multics
Overhage, Carl F. J.	Intrex
Papert, Seymour A.	MAC, AI
Patil, Suhas S.	MAC
Polansky, Robert B.	ESL
Pool, Ithiel de Sola	Political Science
Reintjes, J. Francis	ESL
Rodriguez, Jorge E.	ESL, AED
Roos, Daniel	Civil Engineering
Ross, Douglas T.	ESL, AED
Samuel, Arthur L.	MAC
Sayers, Ralph A.	RLE
Scott, Robert H.	Engineering
Seeger, John	DSR
Selwyn, Lee L.	Sloan
Smullin, Louis D.	MAC
Sprague, Christopher R.	Sloan
Stockham, Thomas G., Jr.	MAC
Therrien, Charles	ESL, Intrex
Thornton, R.	EE
Tobin, William D.	ERC
Tucker, John A.	EE
Van Horn, Earl C.	MAC
Varian, Lee C.	Multics
Walsh, John F.	ESL, AED
Walter, Ronald A.	Civil Engineering
Ward, John E.	ESL
Ward, Stephen A.	MAC
Wilde, Daniel U.	MAC
Wilkes, Maurice V.	MAC
Winett, Joel M.	MAC
Wozencraft, John M.	MAC
Wynne, John M.	Sloan
Zacharaias, Jerrold M.	VP
Zannetos, Zenon F.	Sloan

Key

AED	ESL Algol Extended for Design
AI	MIT AI Laboratory
Administration	Project MAC administration
Aero. & Astro.	MIT Aeronautics & Astronautics Dept
Architecture	MIT Architecture Dept
Biology	MIT Biology Dept
CAES	MIT Center for Advanced Engineering Study
CC	MIT Computation Center
Chemistry	MIT Chemistry Dept
City & Regional Planning	MIT City And Regional Planning Dept
Civil Engineering	MIT Civil Engineering Dept
Contributor	contributed programs to CTSS
DSR	MIT Division of Sponsored Research
Dean, Engineering	MIT School of Engineering
Dean, Science	MIT School of Science
Documentation	CTSS documentation
EE	MIT Electrical Engineering Dept
ERC	Education Research Center
ESL	MIT Electronic Systems Laboratory
Economics	MIT Economics Dept
Engineering	MIT School of Engineering
FAC	MIT Faculty
Humanities	MIT Humanities Dept
IBM	IBM Corporation
Instrumentation	MIT Instrumentation Laboratory
Intrex	ESL Information Transfer Experiments
MAC	MIT Project MAC
Mathematics	MIT Mathematics Dept
Mechanical Engineering	MIT Mechanical Engineering Dept
Metallurgy	MIT Metallurgy Dept
Meteorology	MIT Meteorology Dept
Modern Languages	MIT Modern Languages Dept
Multics	Project MAC Multics development group
Naval Arch.	MIT Naval Arch. Dept
Nuclear Engineering	MIT Nuclear Engineering Dept
Operations	Computation Center or Project MAC computer operations
Political Science	MIT Political Science Dept
Psychology	MIT Psychology Dept
RLE	MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics
RTTS	Real Time Timesharing System, Project MAC
Sloan	MIT Sloan School of Management
System	CTSS system developer
TIP	Project TIP, MIT Libraries
VP	Vice President of MIT

posted 03/31/03, updated 01/11/07 with info from Otis Wright