Hurd, Cuthbert Corwin, 1911-1996
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Computer scientist and director of IBM's Applied Science Department in the 1950s.
International Business Machines (IBM) executive.
Computer scientist and computer company executive.
Computer scientist, director of International Business Machines' Applied Science Department in the early 1950s, and chairman of Quintus Computer Systems.
Computer scientist.
Cuthbert Corwin Hurd joined IBM in 1949 after teaching and serving as a technical research head at the atomic energy facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. At IBM, he formed the Applied Science Department and pushed reluctant management into the world of computing. After leaving IBM in 1962, he served as chairman of the Computer Usage Company until 1974 when he formed Cuthbert C. Hurd Associates. From 1978 to 1986, Hurd served as chairman for Picodyne Corporation. Hurd was a founder, president, and chairman of Quintus Computer Systems from 1984 until October 1989 when Quintus was acquired by Intergraph.
Biographical information from: Cuthbert C. Hurd, in J.A.N. Lee, Computer Pioneers (Los Altimos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995), 389.
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