Title
Burchfiel (Jerry) Oral History
Catalog Number
102702221
Type
Document
Description
Jerry Burchfiel grew up in Oklahoma and then attended MIT for 8 years, obtaining 3 degrees. While at MIT, he worked part time at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He next went to work at BBN where he had an office next door to Bob Kahn in the early ARPANET days, and where he worked with Ray Tomlinson and Dan Murphy to design and implement the TENEX operating system. Over time he came to manage a number of projects involving packet switching and applications of networking. He was an Internet and time-sharing system pioneer. At the time this interview was done, he had been at BBN for 41 years.
Date
2009-06-05
Contributor
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Burchfiel, Jerry, Interviewee
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Weber, Marc, Interviewer
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Extent
17 p.
Format
PDF
Category
Transcription
Subject
Burchfiel, Jerry; MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN); TENEX; packet-radio; BCR; Hermes email system; SIMNET
Collection Title
Oral history collection
