Steve Ward (computer scientist)

Steve Ward is currently Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, where his recent teaching and research activities revolve around areas of computer system architecture. He holds three degrees from MIT – a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science.

One of his research projects, the 1979 Nu machine, became a model for microprocessor-based workstations. Numerous software products have been created due to inspiration of its UNIX port and system software, and the NuBus has become an industry standard. Ward's inventions include a novel dynamic memory chip architecture and a real-time controller design. He was involved with the Curl project,^[1] which aimed to formulate a new language for creating web documents with almost any sort of content, from simple formatted text to complex interactive applets, in the 90s. In the past decade, he has worked on organic computing – alternative ways of building systems so that they behave more like organisms than like conventional computer systems.^[2]

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