6 Dec
2017
6 Dec
'17
4:45 a.m.
Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> asks on Wed, 6 Dec 2017 08:21:13 +1000:
> - more details on who was Ted Bashkow, and the
story behind his (+ others?)
I found a short obituary at
http://engineering.columbia.edu/web/newsletter/spring_2010/memoriam
which is, in full:
> ...
> Theodore R. Bashkow Dr. Theodore R. Bashkow, professor emeritus of
> electricial engineering and computer science, died Dec. 23, 2009, at
> his home in Katonah, N.Y. See PDF version
>
> He was born in St. Louis, Mo., and attended Washington University,
> where he received his BS degree in mechanical engineering. He went on
> to receive his master’s and doctorate degrees at Stanford
> University. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a first lieutenant
> during World War II from 1943 to 1945.
>
> While in the Air Force, he served as maintenance officer and helped to
> stage the Enola Gay. In the 1950s, while at Bell Labs, Professor
> Bashkow became well known for his development of a new method for
> analyzing linear electrical networks, Professor Bashkow’s A matrix. He
> also became involved with digital computers. He joined the faculty of
> the Columbia Electrical Engineering Department in 1958 and helped
> transform the Electrical Engineering Department into the Department of
> Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
>
> When, in 1979, this department was divided into the Electrical
> Engineering and Computer Science departments, Bashkow became one of
> the founding faculty members of Computer Science. He taught courses in
> digital logic, computer organization, and computer programming. He did
> research on parallel processing. In collaboration with Herbert
> Sullivan, he pioneered a new approach to that subject through the
> development of CHoPP, Columbia Homogeneous Parallel Processor, a
> large-scale, homogeneous, fully distributed parallel machine. A number
> of Columbia graduate students and a junior faculty member, David
> Klappholz, were also involved at various stages.
>
> In 1980, the Computer Science Department instituted an annual award in
> his honor, the Theodore R. Bashkow Award. Among his many affiliations,
> Professor Bashkow was an active member of IEEE, ACM, and Sigma Xi
> organizations.
> ...
He is apparently not in Wikipedia.
I then searched our local bibliography archives and found this
publication-title summary (Bashkow is an uncommon name, so I didn't
attempt to disambiguate the reported articles):
MariaDB [bibtex]> select filename, label, substr(title,1,80) from bibtab where (author
like '%Bashkow%') order by year, filename;
+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| filename | label | substr(title,1,80)
|
+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| jacm.bib | Bashkow:1958:CPR | A ``Curve Plotting'' Routine
for the Inverse Laplace Transform of Rational Funct |
| ieeetranscomput.bib | Bashkow:1963:RDA | R63-106 The D 825 Automatic Operating and
Scheduling Program |
| ieeetranscomput.bib | Bashkow:1963:C | Contributors
|
| ieeetranscomput.bib | Bashkow:1963:PSD | A Programming System for Detection and
Diagnosis of Machine Malfunctions |
| ieeetranscomput.bib | Bashkow:1964:SCA | A Sequential Circuit for Algebraic
Statement Translation |
| fortran1.bib | Bashkow:1967:SDF | System Design of a FORTRAN Machine
|
| ieeetranscomput.bib | Bashkow:1967:SDF | System Design of a FORTRAN Machine
|
| ieeetranscomput1970.bib | Bashkow:1971:BSS | B71-6 System Structure in Data, Programs,
and Computers |
| ieeetranscomput1970.bib | Bashkow:1971:BIC | B71-2 Introduction to Computer
Organization |
| ieeetranscomput1970.bib | Bashkow:1973:CRO | Comment on Review of Operating Systems
Survey |
| ovr.bib | Sullivan77b | A Large Scale, Homogeneous, Fully
Distributed Parallel Machine |
| ovr.bib | Sullivan77a | A Large Scale Homogeneous Fully
Distributed Parallel Machine |
| sigarch.bib | Sullivan:1977:LSHb | A Large Scale, Homogenous, Fully
Distributed Parallel Machine, II |
| sigarch.bib | Sullivan:1977:LSHa | A large scale, homogeneous, fully
distributed parallel machine, I |
| ieeetranscomput1980.bib | Ghafoor:1989:BFT | Bisectional Fault-Tolerant Communication
Architecture for Supercomputer Systems |
| super.bib | Ghafoor:1989:BFT | Bisectional Fault-Tolerant Communication
Architecture for Supercomputer Systems |
| ieeetranscomput1990.bib | Ghafoor:1991:SOG | A study of odd graphs as fault-tolerant
interconnection networks |
+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
17 rows in set (2.67 sec)
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