Pioneer of digital systems design and synthesis for over five decades, McCluskey is known for co-developing the Quine-McCluskey method of Boolean function minimization.
Professor McCluskey worked on electronic switching systems at the Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1955 to 1959. In 1959, he moved to Princeton University, where he served as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the University Computer Center.
In 1966, he joined Stanford University, where he became Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as Director of the Center for Reliable Computing. McCluskey founded the Stanford Digital Systems Laboratory (now the Computer Systems Laboratory) in 1969 and the Stanford Computer Engineering Program (now the Computer Science MS Degree Program) in 1970. The Stanford Computer Forum (an Industrial Affiliates Program) was started by Dr. McCluskey and two colleagues in 1970, and he served as its Director until 1978. Professor McCluskey led the Reliability and Testing Symposium (RATS).
