Lee E. McMahon

By admin , 21 December 2015
Lee
E.
McMahon
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Description

Contributor to early versions of the Unix operating system, including the sed stream editor, McMahon worked for Bell Labs from 1963 until 1989.

McMahon was a computer scientist who graduated from St. Louis University and obtained a Ph.D. in Psychology at Harvard. He was also responsible for the McMahon system tournament named after him.

Bell Labs
Contributor to the creation of UNIX
Date of Birth
1931
Date of Death
1989
Lee E. McMahon

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