Saul Rosen

Name: Saul Rosen

Born: February 8, 1922, in Port Chester, New York, USA

Death: June 9, 1991 (Age: 69)

Computer-related contributions

• Lead software designer for the world's first transistorized computer, the Philco TRANSAC S-2000.
• Helped take Purdue to the forefront of high-performance computing at American universities.

Significant publications

• Lectures on the Measurement and Evaluation of the Performance of Computing Systems (1987).
• Electronic computers: A historical survey (1969).
• Programming Systems and Languages (1967).

Honors and awards

• ACM Distinguished Service Award (1984).
• One of the charter faculty members in Purdue's Computer Science Department.