Maurice Karnaugh
Maurice Karnaugh (born October 4,
1924, in New York City)
is an American physicist known for the Karnaugh map used in Boolean algebra.
Karnaugh studied
mathematics and physics at City College of New York (1944–48) and transferred to Yale
University to complete
his B.Sc. (1949), M.Sc. (1950) and Ph.D. in physics with a thesis on The Theory of Magnetic Resonance
and Lambda-Type Doubling in Nitric-Oxide (1952).
Karnaugh worked at Bell Labs (1952–66), developing the Karnaugh map
(1954) as well as patents for PCM encoding[1]and magnetic logic
circuits and coding.[2][3] He later worked at IBM's Federal Systems
Division in Gaithersburg (1966–70) and at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (1970–89), studying multistage interconnection networks.[4]
Karnaugh was elected
an IEEE Fellow in 1976, and held an adjunct position
at Polytechnic University of New York at the Westchester campus from 1980 to
1999.
He has been married
to the former Linn Blank Weil since 1970. He has two grown sons, Robert and
Paul, from his first marriage.
courtesy : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Karnaugh
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