Peter J. Denning
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Peter J. Denning is a computer scientist and one of the team members of the Multics project.
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[edit] Career
He graduated with PhD from MIT in 1968 and took an academic job at Princeton University. He developed a unified theory of virtual memory and invented the working set model for optimal memory management and in 1983 moved to NASA. Between 1991 and 2002 he taught at the George Mason University, where he still serves as a research affiliate. In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. Denning is currently the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
[edit] Family
In 1974 Peter J. Denning married Dorothy E. Denning who later became an international expert in security, information warfare, and terrorism. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School.
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[edit] Bibliography
- P. J. Denning (December 1976). "Fault tolerant operating systems". ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 8 (4): 359 - 389. ISSN 0360-0300.
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