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'''Severo M. Ornstein''' is a retired [[computer scientist]] and son of Russian-American composer [[Leo Ornstein]].

== Biography ==

In 1955 he joined MIT's Lincoln Laboratory as a programmer and designer for the [[SAGE]] air-defense system.

He later joined the [[TX-2 group]] and became a member of the team that designed the [[LINC]].

He moved with the team to Washington University in St. Louis where he was one of the principal designers of [[Macromodule|macromodules]].

Returning to Boston he joined [[Bolt, Beranek and Newman]].

When [[ARPA]] issued a Request for Proposal for the [[ARPANET]], he joined the group that wrote the winning proposal.

He was responsible for the design of the communication interfaces and other special hardware for the [[Interface Message Processor]].

In 1972 he headed the first delegation of U.S. computer scientists to the People's Republic of China.

In 1976, he joined [[Xerox PARC]] where he implemented a computer interface to an early laser printer.

Later he co-led (with [[Ed McCreight]]) the team that built the [[Dorado computer]].

Ornstein co-designed and oversaw the programming of [[Mockingbird (software)|Mockingbird]], the first interactive computer-based music-score editor.

In 1980 he was instrumental in starting [[Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility]] (CPSR).

== Autobiography ==

He wrote an [[autobiography]] ((2002)) describing his experiences in computer science, published in 2002.

''Computing in the Middle Ages: A View from the Trenches 1955-1983''.

Lexington, KY: 1st Books.

ISBN 978-1-4033-1517-5.

== See also ==

* [[Computer science]]

== External links ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severo_Ornstein Severo Ornstein] @ Wikipedia

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