Steve Ward is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at
MIT, where his recent teaching and research activities revolve around areas of computer system architecture. He holds three degrees from MIT – a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science.
One of his research projects, the 1979
Nu machine The NuMachine, or Nu machine, was an early microprocessor-based computer workstation designed to interface with local area networks. It was developed in the late 1970s at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) by Professor Steve Ward and his r ...
, became a model for microprocessor-based workstations. Numerous software products have been created due to inspiration of its UNIX port and system software, and the
NuBus
NuBus (pron. 'New Bus') is a 32-bit parallel computer bus, originally developed at MIT and standardized in 1987 as a part of the NuMachine workstation project. The first complete implementation of the NuBus was done by Western Digital f ...
was an industry standard from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. In the late 1970s Professor Steve Ward and his research group at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) developed the
TRIX operating system. Ward's inventions include a novel dynamic memory chip architecture and a real-time controller design. He was involved with the
Curl
cURL (pronounced like "curl", UK: , US: ) is a computer software project providing a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (curl) for transferring data using various network protocols. The name stands for "Client URL".
History
cURL was fir ...
project, which aimed to formulate a new language for creating web documents with almost any sort of content, from simple formatted text to complex interactive applets, in the 90s. In the early 2000s he worked on
organic computing – alternative ways of building systems so that they behave more like organisms than like conventional computer systems.
[An Interview with Professor Steve Ward - http://eecs-newsletter.mit.edu/articles/2010-spring/an-interview-with-professor-steve-ward/]
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Living people
American computer scientists
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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