"By the mid-seventies, Elliott had become the foremost expository writer of computer science."
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Elliott Organick
Elliott Irving Organick (25 February, 1925 - 21 December, 1985) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in operating systems development and computer science education. He was instrumental in founding the ACM Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education and was known for his numerous monographs and texts on computing systems.
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