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'''Kenneth Harry Olsen''' ([[Bridgeport (Connecticut)|Bridgeport]], {{dtlink|lang=br|20|2|1926}} — [[Lincoln (Massachusetts)|Lincoln]], {{dtlink|lang=br|6|2|2011}}<ref>{{citar web|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-02-08-ken-olsen-obit_N.htm|título=Computer pioneer Ken Olsen dies at age 84|língua=inglês|acessodata=1 de dezembro de 2016}}</ref>) foi um [[Engenharia|engenheiro]] [[Estados Unidos|estadunidense]] que se notabilizou por co-fundar a [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] (DEC) em 1957.
<ref name=morte>{{Citar web | url = http://pcworld.uol.com.br/noticias/2011/02/08/ken-olsen-pioneiro-dos-minicomputadores-morre-aos-84-anos-nos-eua/ | obra = PC World | titulo = Notícia sobre falecimento de Ken Olsen | ano = 2011 | accessomesdia = 9 de fevereiro | acessoano = 2011}}
</ref>) foi um [[Engenharia|engenheiro]] [[Estados Unidos|estadunidense]] que se notabilizou por co-fundar a [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] (DEC) em 1957.
 
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co-founded [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] (DEC) in 1957 with colleague [[Harlan Anderson]]. <ref> [http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/114.html ''National Inventor's Hall of Fame profile'']</ref>
 
==Background==
Kenneth Harry Olsen was born in [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]] and grew up in the neighboring town of [[Stratford, Connecticut]]. His father came from [[Norway]] and his mother from [[Sweden]]. Olsen began his career working summers in a machine shop. Fixing radios in his basement gave him the reputation of a neighborhood inventor.
 
After serving in the [[United States Navy]] between 1944 and 1946, Olsen attended the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], where he earned a B.S. (1950) and an M.A. (1952) in electrical engineering. <ref>Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, ''Shaping the Waves: A History of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School'', p. 108. ISBN 9781591398134.</ref>.
 
==Career==
During his studies at MIT, the [[Office of Naval Research]] of the [[United States Air Force]] recruited Olsen to help build a computerized flight simulator. Also while at MIT he directed the building of the first transistorized research computer. Olsen was an engineer who had been working at [[MIT]] [[Lincoln Laboratory]] on the [[TX-2]] project.<ref>[http://www.career-bios.com/science-and-technology/ken-olson/ ''Biography Overviews of Prominent Individuals'']</ref>
 
In 1957, Ken Olsen and an MIT colleague, Harlan Anderson, decided to start their own firm. They approached [[American Research and Development Corporation]], an early venture capital firm, which had been founded by [[Georges Doriot]]. In the 1960s Olsen received patents for a saturable switch, a diode transformer gate circuit, magnetic core memory, and the line printer buffer.
 
Ken Olsen was known throughout his career for his paternalistic management style and his fostering of engineering innovation. Ken Olsen’s valuing of innovation and technical excellence spawned and popularized techniques such as engineering matrix management that are broadly employed today throughout many industries.<ref> See [http://www.decconnection.org/kensleadership.htm remarks by Win Hindle about Ken's leadership].</ref>
 
In 1986, [[Fortune Magazine]] named Olsen "America's most successful entrepreneur".<ref>''The war lost, Digital surrenders'' [[Boston Globe]], January 27, 1998, p.c1.</ref> Olsen was the subject of a 1988 biography, ''[[The Ultimate Entrepreneur]]: The Story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation'' written by Glenn Rifkin and George Harrar.
 
==Later career history==
In 1987 he gave the first of his infamous '[[snake oil]] speeches', taken by some to be referring indirectly to the "Unix Conspiracy".<ref>[http://www.faqs.org/docs/jargon/U/Unix-conspiracy.html Jargon File article: Unix Conspiracy].</ref> While Olsen believed [[OpenVMS|VMS]] was a better solution for DEC customers and often talked of the strengths of the system, he did approve and encourage an internal effort to produce a native BSD-based [[UNIX]] product on the [[VAX]] line of computers called [[Ultrix]]. However, this line never got enthusiastic comprehensive support at DEC.{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}
 
He was awarded the [[The Franklin Institute Awards|Vermilye Medal]] in 1980. Olsen retired from DEC in 1992. He subsequently became the chairman of [[Advanced Modular Solutions]]. Olsen was also a major contributor to [[The Family (Christian political organization)|The Family]], a religious and political organization.<ref>[http://www.harpers.org/archive/2003/03/0079525 Article], ''[[Harpers Magazine]]'', March 2003.</ref>
 
Olsen is a trustee of [[Gordon College (Massachusetts)]]. <ref>[http://www.decconnection.org/KOTribute.htm ''The Salute to Ken Olsen'' June 17, 2006]</ref> The Ken Olsen Science Center was named after him in 2006.<ref>[http://www.gordon.edu/article.cfm?iArticleID=108&iReferrerPageID=5&iPrevCatID=30&bLive=1 ''Salute to Ken Olsen'' — Gordon Hosts Tribute to Massachusetts Technology Icon].</ref> and dedicated on 27 September 2008. Its lobby features a Digital Loggia of Technology, documenting Digital’s technology and history, and an interactive kiosk to which former employees have submitted their stories.
 
==Quotations==
Two quotes of his are frequently taken out of context, and are indeed among the least understood in the industry.
 
* from 1977: ''There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home''. <br>Referred to having the computer run the house, with automated doors, voice-activated faucets et cetera. He had a computer in his home for general use and promulgated the idea. <ref> [http://www.snopes.com/quotes/kenolsen.asp Snopes' account of Olsen's "computer in his home" remark]</ref>
 
*from 1992: ''People will get tired of managing personal computers and will want instead terminals, maybe with windows''. <br>Anticipated thin clients and the general client-server model of the web. Indeed, most of the "thinking" now happens "out there, " as with a mainframe and an office full of terminals way back when. Note that he was not referring to [[Microsoft Windows]], but rather to a windowing capability in the technical sense, akin to an X terminal or a network computer.
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=={{Ligações externas}}==
*[http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/olsen.html 1988 Transcript of an Oral History Interview with Ken Olsen]
*[http://www.economicadventure.org/decision/olsen.pdf Ken Olsen], New England Economic Adventure
 
 
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