Rudd Canaday is an American

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and a previous member of the technical staff at the

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, credited to co-develop the initial design of the

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file system. In 2015 he joined a

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based tech startup, Entefy, as a Senior Architect & Engineer.

Research and career

Canaday received his

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(BA) in Physics from

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in 1959 and received his

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(PhD) in

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from

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in 1964. In 1960s,

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developed a game called '' Space Travel'' on

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file system, which ran very slowly on the machine. This caused Thompson to design his own

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along with

Dennis Ritchie Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and the Unix operating system and B language with long-time colleague Ken Thompson. Ritchie and Thomp ...

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and Canaday.

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also joined Thompson, Ritchie and Canaday to program the operating system called Unics, later named

. In 1973, Canaday along with Evan Ivie started developing the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) to support a computer center for a 1000-employee Bell Labs division, which would be the largest Unix site for several years.

Selected publications

* Canaday, Rudd H., R. D. Harrison, Evan L. Ivie, J. L. Ryder, and L. A. Wehr. "A back-end computer for data base management." Communications of the ACM 17, no. 10 (1974): 575-582. * Canaday, Rudd H. "Two-dimensional iterative logic." In Proceedings of the November 30—December 1, 1965, fall joint computer conference, part I, pp. 343–353. 1965.

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LinkedIn profile

Why the co-inventor of Unix joined Entefy
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Research and career

Selected publications

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