George Glaser received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1952 and later studied business administration at the University of New Mexico. He worked in engineering for several companies before becoming a consultant for McKinsey & Company, Inc. in 1961. In 1973 he became an independent consultant as managing partner in Centigram Enterprises. Glaser founded its successor, Centigram Corporation, in 1977. In 1981 he incorporated as George Glaser, Inc. in Los Angeles, California.
Glaser was active in several professional associations. He became a United States delegate to the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) in 1980, and became vice president of IFIP in 1982. He was president and chairman of the board of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) and chairman of the National Computer Conference (NCC) board from 1973 to 1975. He was a member of the Data Processing Management Association's (DPMA) Education Foundation Board of Regents from its founding in 1975 to 1977. He was treasurer of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1968-1972, and council member-at-large, 1973.
He was author of numerous articles in professional journals and trade publications on various management and technical topics, and a frequent speaker at technical conferences.
From the guide to the George Glaser papers, 1960-1989, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute. [cbi])
