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Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2019 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. McIlroy is best known for having originally proposed Unix pipelines and developed several Unix tools, such as spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr.
M. Douglas McIlroy, Adjunct Professor. Department of Computer Science 6211 Sudikoff Hall Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu +1 603 646 1077. 2003 marked my golden anniversary as a programmer.
An adjunct professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, M. Douglas. McIlroy retired in 1997 from Bell Laboratories (successively a part of. AT&T and its spinoff Lucent Technologies, since acquired by Alcatel then. Nokia). At Bell Labs he headed a computer-science research department.
The Unix philosophy is documented by Doug McIlroy in the Bell System Technical Journal from 1978: Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features".
Mar 15, 2024 · M. Douglas McIlroy ’53, attended his 70th School of Applied and Engineering Physics class reunion in spring 2023. McIlroy – mathematician, engineer and programmer – graduated with a B.E.P. degree in engineering physics from the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell, where he became fascinated with computers.
The pipeline concept was invented by Douglas McIlroy and first described in the man pages of Version 3 Unix. McIlroy noticed that much of the time command shells passed the output file from one program as input to another.
douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu. 603 643 5844. Engineer and Comp Science Ctr, Room 103. HB 6211.
