Rudd Canaday
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| Alma mater | Harvard University (B A., 1959) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1964) |
| Occupation(s) | Computer scientist, engineer and business executive |
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Rudd Canaday is an American computer systems engineer and a previous member of the technical staff at the Bell Telephone LaboratoriesinMurray Hill, New Jersey, credited to co-develop the initial design of the Unix file system.[1][2] In 2015 he joined a Palo Alto based tech startup, Entefy, as a Senior Architect & Engineer.[3][4]
Canaday received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Physics from Harvard University in 1959 and received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964.
In 1960s, Ken Thompson developed a game called Space TravelonMultics file system, which ran very slowly on the machine. This caused Thompson to design his own hierarchical file system along with Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIlroy and Canaday.[5][6] Joe Ossanna also joined Thompson, Ritchie and Canaday to program the operating system called Unics, later named Unix.[7]
In 1973, Canaday along with Evan Ivie started developing the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) to support a computer center for a 1000-employee Bell Labs division, which would be the largest Unix site for several years.[8]
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