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His career Dennis entered MIT in 1949 as an electrical engineering major; he received his M.S. degree in 1954 , and continued doctoral research and received his Sc.D. in 1958 . He became a full professor in 1969 . He was involved in early work on Time-sharing through the PDP-1 which his group owned at MIT; that machine is famous in Computer Science as the machine on which Hacker culture started. Later, he was one of the founding members of the Multics project, to which he contributed one of its most important concepts, the Single-level Memory . Multics, though not particularly commercially successful in itself, was an inspiration for Ken Thompson to develop Unix . He retired from MIT in 1987 to do independent projects and consulting. He developed compiler for the SISAL programming language and was a visiting scientist at NASA 's Research Institute. EXTERNAL LINKS
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