In 1969, Ross founded SofTech, Inc., which began as an early supplier of custom compilers for the United States Department of Defense (DoD) for the languages Ada and Pascal. In the 1950s, he participated in the MIT Whirlwind I computer project. Afterward, he began but didn't finish his Ph.D., at MIT due to his pressing work as head of MIT's Computer Applications Group. He received a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) cum laude in mathematics from Oberlin College in 1951, and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1954. Ross was born in China, where his parents both worked as medical missionaries, and he then grew up in the United States in Canandaigua, New York. 2.5 Structured analysis and design technique.2.4 MIT's electrical engineering and computer science.His later work focused on a pseudophilosophy he developed and named Plex. He is most famous for originating the term CAD for computer-aided design, and is considered to be the father of Automatically Programmed Tools ( APT), a programming language to drive numerical control in manufacturing. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Д¬omputational Techniques for Fourier Transformation (1954)Дouglas Taylor ' Doug' Ross (21 December 1929 вЂ“ 31 January 2007) was an American computer scientist pioneer, and chairman of SofTech, Inc.

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