Jerrier A. "Jerry" Haddad (July 17, 1922 – March 31, 2017) was an American pioneer

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who was the co-developer and designer of the

IBM 701 The IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine, known as the Defense Calculator while in development, was IBM’s first commercial scientific computer and its first series production mainframe computer, which was announced to the public on May 2 ...

series which was

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's first commercial scientific computer and its first mass-produced mainframe computer. The IBM 701 started the line of

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which were responsible for bringing electronic computing to the world and for IBM's dominance in the mainframe computer market during the 1960s and 1970s that continues today. The lower-cost general-purpose version of the IBM 701 was the famous

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, which became the first mass-produced computer in the world. Haddad was responsible for engineering and both system and circuit-level design, and managed the approximately 200 engineers involved. In 1984, along with

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, he received the

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. Haddad was also the co-developer of the

IBM 604 The IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch was the world's first mass-produced electronic calculator along with its predecessor the IBM 603.

, the world's first mass-produced programmable electronic calculator, along with Ralph Palmer. He was a fellow of both the

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and the

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, and was a member of the

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Biography

Haddad was born in New York City, to a family of

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and Lebanese origin, his father was the writer and journalist Abd al-Masih Haddad. He received a Bachelor of Science in

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, 1945. He studied in the Advanced Business Management Program at

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in 1958. Haddad lived in

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, with his wife and five children. Haddad was the co-developer of the

IBM 604 The IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch was the world's first mass-produced electronic calculator along with its predecessor the IBM 603.

, the world's first mass-produced programmable electronic calculator, and jointly directed the

electronic defense calculator program with

. Haddad was the vice president of technical personnel development when he retired from IBM in 1981. Haddad held 18 patents for inventions in the computer and electronics fields. Haddad and Watson Sr

Honors and Awards: * Member,

, 1968 * Recipient, Order of the Cedars Medal,

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, 1970 * Honorary Doctorate of Sciences, Union College, 1971 * Honorary Doctorate of Sciences, Clarkson College, 1978 *

IEEE

, 1984IEEE Computer Societ
"Computer Pioneer Award"
, past recipients, 1984. * Fellow, IEEE * Fellow,

References

External links

The Computer Pioneers: The Development of the IBM 701
Segment 1–5. July 12, 1983. Jerrier Haddad, Clarence Frizzell, Nathan Rochester, and Richard Whalen {{DEFAULTSORT:Haddad, Jerrier A. 1922 births 2017 deaths Engineers from New York (state) Cornell University College of Engineering alumni Fellows of the IEEE Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science American people of Syrian descent People from Briarcliff Manor, New York