Roger Lee Sisson (June 24, 1926 – January 22, 1992) was an early
data processing
Data processing is the collection and manipulation of digital data to produce meaningful information.
Data processing is a form of ''information processing'', which is the modification (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an ...
pioneer. Sisson worked on
Project Whirlwind while a graduate student at
MIT, co-founded the first consulting firm devoted to electronic data processing,
and published a number of the earliest books and periodicals on computers and data processing.
Sisson earned his
M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT in January 1950. He worked in
Jay Forrester
Jay Wright Forrester (July 14, 1918 – November 16, 2016) was a pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He is credited with being one of the inventors of magnetic core memory, the predominant form of random-access computer ...
’s lab on Project Whirlwind. His thesis, written with Alfred Susskind, was on the digital to analog conversion for the cathode ray tube display.
Sisson, with Richard Canning, started one of the first consulting firms devoted exclusively to electronic data processing, Canning, Sisson, and Associates. Canning and Sisson also published one of the earliest computer periodicals, ''Data Processing Digest'', starting in 1955. Sisson went on to write a number of noted books on the subject of EDP, including ''The Management of Data Processing'', and ''A Manager’s Guide to Data Processing''. He wrote an early and influential paper in the field of
Operations Research, "Methods of Sequencing in Job Shops" in the journal ''Operations Research'' in 1959.
Sisson died January 22, 1992, in New York City, of sudden cardiac arrest.
He was 65 at the time of his death.
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MIT School of Engineering alumni
American computer scientists
1926 births
1992 deaths