Stuart E. Madnick (born 1944) is an American
computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus ( ...
, and professor of information technology at the
MIT Sloan School of Management
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and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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school of engineering. He is the director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS), formerly called the
MIT Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (
(IC)³).
Life and work
Madnick has degrees in
Electrical Engineering (B.S. and M.S.),
Management
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Management includes the activities ...
(M.S.), and
Computer Science
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(Ph.D.) from MIT.
Madnick has been a faculty member at MIT since 1972. He has served as the head of MIT's Information Technologies Group for more than twenty years. He has also been an affiliate member of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, a member of the research advisory committee of the International Financial Services Research Center, and a member of the executive committee of the
MIT Center for Information Systems Research
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.
In 2010, Madnick was the John Norris Maguire Professor of Information Technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a professor of engineering systems in the MIT School of Engineering, and codirector of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS).
He has been a Visiting Professor at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
,
Nanyang Technological University
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(Singapore),
University of Newcastle (England),
Technion (Israel), and
Victoria University (New Zealand).
Work
His current research interests include connectivity among disparate distributed information systems, database technology, software project management, and the strategic use of information technology. He is co-director of the PROductivity From Information Technology (PROFIT) Initiative, and co-Heads the Total Data Quality Management (TDQM) research program.
He has been the Principal Investigator of a large-scale
DARPA
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Originally known as the Ad ...
-funded research effort on Context Interchange which involves the development of technology that helps organizations to work more cooperatively, coordinated, and collaboratively. As part of this effort, he is the co-inventor on the patents "Querying Heterogeneous Data Sources over a Network Using Context Interchange" and "Data Extraction from World Wide Web Pages."
He has been active in industry, making significant contributions as a key designer and developer of projects such as
IBM's VM/370 operating system and
Lockheed's DIALOG information retrieval system. He has served as a consultant to many major corporations, such as IBM,
AT&T
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, and
Citicorp. He has also been the founder or co-founder of several high-tech firms, including Intercomp (acquired by
Logicon), Mitrol (acquired by
General Electric
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's Information Systems Company), Cambridge Institute for Information Systems, founded with
John J. Donovan
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(its successor corporation was named Cambridge Technology Group, founded by
John J. Donovan
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), iAggregate (acquired by
ArsDigita, which was subsequently acquired by
Red Hat), and now operates a hotel in the 14th-century
Langley Castle
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Detai ...
in
Northumberland
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in northern England.
Madnick is involved with the research effort at BMLL Technologies,
[https://www.bmlltech.com/, BMLL Technologies Ltd.] a Cambridge spin-off working in the field of
machine learning
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Machine ...
on the
limit order book.
Publications
Madnick is the author or co-author of over 250 books, articles, or reports including the textbook, ''Operating Systems'' (
McGraw-Hill
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), and ''The Dynamics of Software Development'' (
Prentice-Hall
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). He has also contributed chapters to other books, such as ''Information Technology in Action'' (Prentice-Hall). In 1965, he developed the
little man computer model that is still widely used to introduce computer architecture concepts. In 1968, Madnick developed
SCRIPT
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Writing systems
* Script, a distinctive writing system, based on a repertoire of specific elements or symbols, or that repertoire
* Script (styles of handwriting)
** Script typeface, a typeface with characteristics of ha ...
,
[Stuart E. Madnick and Allen G. Moulton (1968) IEEE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech, Vol. EWS-11, No. 2, pp. 92-100.] a text markup language for IBM z/VM and z/OS systems, which is still being used as a part of IBM's Document Composition Facility (DCF) with the current version called SCRIPT/VS.
References
External links
*https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/stuart-madnick
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1944 births
Living people
Harvard University staff
MIT School of Engineering alumni
MIT Sloan School of Management faculty