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Peter J. Denning
KindPerson
Born1942
StatusAlive
Fieldtheory
Sourcedenninginstitute.com ↗

Invented the working-set model for virtual memory — why paging thrashes and how to prevent it.

Invented the working-set model (1968) — the theory virtual memory runs on — and wrote 'Operating Systems Theory' with Coffman.\n\nRan the CS field's professional organization (ACM president); the 'working set' is every paging algorithm's basis.

Sources

  1. denninginstitute.com/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Denning