John William Poduska Sr. is an American engineer and entrepreneur, born in Memphis, Tennessee, who was a founder of Prime Computer, Apollo Computer and Stellar Computer. Before that he headed the Electronics Research Lab at NASA's Cambridge, Massachusetts, facility and also worked at Honeywell. He has served on the boards of Novell, Anadarko Petroleum, Anystream, Boston Ballet, Wang Center and the Boston Lyric Opera, and he currently serves as a trustee at Bentley University. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1986 for technical and entrepreneurial leadership in computing, including the development of Prime, the first virtual memory minicomputer.
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1937
Associated With: Information Technology Industry, Lead: associated industry
He was a founder of Prime Computer, Apollo Computer, and Stellar Computer.
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is an American engineer and entrepreneur .
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He was a founder of Prime Computer, Apollo Computer, and Stellar Computer.
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It was founded in 1980 by William Poduska (a founder of Prime Computer) and others.
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