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Douglas McIlroy

1932 - Today

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Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2019 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. McIlroy is best known for having originally proposed Unix pipelines and developed several Unix tools, such as echo, spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr. He was also one of the pioneering researchers of macro processors and programming language extensibility. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Douglas McIlroy is the 826th most popular mathematician (down from 802nd in 2019), the 8,592nd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,897th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Douglas McIlroy ranks 826 out of 1,004Before him are Mary Everest Boole, Anatoly Karatsuba, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, William Henry Young, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, and Walter Rudin. After him are Hans Rademacher, Ennio de Giorgi, Hellmuth Kneser, Friedrich Engel, Corrado Segre, and George Szekeres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Douglas McIlroy ranks 411Before him are Robert Coover, Gaudencio Rosales, Maya Kristalinskaya, Fazu Aliyeva, Jerzy Pawłowski, and Oliver Nelson. After him are Jiří Havlis, Gaston Mercier, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Guillaume Bieganski, Ivan Šantek, and François Deguelt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Douglas McIlroy ranks 8,594 out of 20,380Before him are Walter J. Ong (1912), James P. Bagian (1952), David Todd Wilkinson (1935), D. B. Woodside (1969), Tom Arnold (1959), and Lucien Carr (1925). After him are David Blatt (1959), Larry Fine (1902), Peter Yarrow (1938), Tory Lane (1982), DeWitt Clinton (1769), and Paul Dano (1984).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Douglas McIlroy ranks 63Before him are Curtis T. McMullen (1958), Hassler Whitney (1907), Daniel Lewin (1970), Rudy Rucker (1946), Morris Kline (1908), and Edward O. Thorp (1932). After him are Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879), Marston Morse (1892), Tom M. Apostol (1923), Michael Aschbacher (1944), Garrett Birkhoff (1911), and Kenneth Appel (1932).