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Kenneth Harry Olsen (February 20, 1926 – February 6, 2011) was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson and his brother Stan Olsen.
Feb 8, 2011 · Ken Olsen, who helped reshape the computer industry as a founder of the Digital Equipment Corporation, at one time the world’s second-largest computer company, died on...
Feb 17, 2011 · Since Digital Equipment Corp. founder (and MIT alumnus) Ken Olsen died earlier this month at 84, much has been written about him and the computer company he cofounded.
Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC / dɛk / ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957.
Jun 14, 2024 · Ken Olsen was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1926. He received a BS (1950) and MS (1952) from MIT in electrical engineering. Olsen began working at MIT's digital computer laboratory after graduation and mastered high-speed transistor circuit design from the tx-2 computer project there.
Feb 8, 2011 · Kenneth Olsen, the computer industry pioneer who co-founded minicomputer maker Digital Equipment Corp., died at the age of 84 on Sunday.
Feb 8, 2011 · Obituary Ken Olsen, the founder of minicomputer and client/server company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) died on Sunday. He was 84 years-old. Olsen started out a maverick, pioneered and drove the minicomputer and supermini revolutions, and then became a dinosaur.
