William Wulf

William Allan Wulf (Disamba 8, 1939 - Maris 10, 2023) masanin kimiyyar kwamfuta ne ɗan ƙasar Amurka wanda ya shahara saboda aikinsa a harsunan shirye-shirye da na'urorin tattara bayanai .

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haifi Wulf a Chicago, kuma ya halarci Jami'ar Illinois Urbana-Champaign, inda ya sami digirin farko na Kimiyya (BS) a fannin kimiyyar injiniya a shekarar 1961 da kuma digiri na biyu na Kimiyya (MS) a fannin injiniyan lantarki a shekarar 1963. Daga nan ya sami digirin farko na Digirin Farko na Falsafa (Ph.D.) a fannin kimiyyar kwamfuta daga Jami'ar Virginia a shekarar 1968.

 Sana'a 
A shekarar 1970, lokacin da yake Jami'ar Carnegie Mellon (CMU), ya tsara harshen shirye-shiryen BLISS kuma ya ƙirƙiri mai tsara shirye-shirye don shi.

Daga 1971 zuwa 1975, a matsayin wani ɓangare na aikin CMUs C.mmp, ya yi aiki a kan wani microkernel na tsarin aiki (OS) mai suna Hydra wanda aka gina bisa ga iyawa, wanda aka mayar da hankali kan abu, kuma an tsara shi don tallafawa nau'ikan tsarin aiki iri-iri da za a iya amfani da su.

Tare da matarsa Anita K. Jones, Wulf ya kasance wanda ya kafa kuma mataimakiyar shugaba ta Tartan Laboratories, wani kamfanin fasahar tattara bayanai, a shekarar 1981.

Wulf ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban Kwalejin Injiniya ta Ƙasa  daga 1996 zuwa 2007. Ya jagoranci Hukumar Kimiyyar Kwamfuta da Sadarwa ta Majalisar Bincike ta Ƙasa daga 1992 zuwa 1996. Kafin haka, ya yi aiki a matsayin Mataimakin Darakta na Hukumar Kimiyyar Kwamfuta da Bayanai ta Ƙasa ta Amurka (CISE) daga 1988-1990. A wannan lokacin, ya taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen samar da hanyar sadarwa ta kwamfuta ta NSFnet (kamar yadda aka san ta a wancan lokacin) ga jama'a a matsayin Intanet, wanda ya sami lambar yabo ta ACM Policy Award a 2017.  Ya yi aiki a Majalisar ACM, a kwamitin gudanarwa na CRDF Global,  kuma editan bita ne na Kimiyya . A 1994 an naɗa shi a matsayin Fellow na ACM. A 2007 an ba Wulf lambar yabo ta gabatar da lacca mai daraja ta Charles P. Steinmetz a Kwalejin Union .  An zaɓe shi cikin Ƙungiyar Falsafa ta Amurka a wannan shekarar. 

Binciken Wulf ya kuma haɗa da tsarin gine-ginen kwamfuta, tsaron kwamfuta, da kuma lambar sirri ta software-hardware .

Wulf ya ƙare aikinsa a Jami'ar Virginia ta hanyar yin murabus a ranar Talata, 19 ga Yuni, 2012, don nuna rashin amincewa da murabus ɗin tilas na tsohuwar Shugaba Teresa A. Sullivan,  a cikin abin da ya kira, "mummunan misali na shugabancin kamfanoni da na taɓa gani."   Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz Memorial Lecture Series  Bayan ƙalubalen da ya yaɗu daga malamai, ƙungiyar ɗalibai, tsofaffin ɗalibai, da kuma al'ummar ilimi ta ƙasa; kuma a gaban barazanar kai tsaye daga Gwamnan Virginia cewa zai maye gurbin dukkan hukumar gudanarwa idan ba su magance rikicin ba, an sake ɗaukar Sullivan aiki bayan makonni biyu. 

 Rayuwar mutum da mutuwa 
Wulf ya auri Anita K. Jones, farfesa mai ritaya a fannin kimiyyar kwamfuta a Jami'ar Virginia .

William Wulf ya mutu a Charlottesville, Virginia, a ranar 10 ga Maris, 2023, yana da shekaru 83.  
Rukuni:Mutuwan 2023
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1939