Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is a mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2007 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College.
1932
Known for:Pipeline (Unix) Unix pipelines, software componentry, spell (Unix) spell, diff, sort (Unix) sort, join (Unix utility) join, graph (Unix) graph, speak (Unix) speak, tr (Unix) tr
Dartmouth College faculty
Position:Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering • Programmer • Mathematician • Engineer
Cornell University
Academic degree:Professor
Area of science:Software engineering
Software • Operating system • Software tools
Award:Lifetime Achievement Award