IP: The death of Max Paley -- a computer pioneer

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

From: Mike Flynn <flynn@umunhum.stanford.edu>
To: "'Dave Farber'" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
Cc: "'flynn@umunhum.stanford.edu'" <flynn@umunhum.stanford.edu>




Max Paley, President and founder of Palyn Associates (Campbell CA) died
on 18 September after a short hospitalization.


Maxwell O. Paley was born in Poughkeepsie N.Y. in 1927. After completing
WW II military service he received his BS in EE from Penn State
University in 1949. He joined IBM and rose rapidly in their Engineering 
organization. He managed IBM's first transistorized computer project, an 
experimental IBM 608. He was Engineering Manager of IBM's defining
computer mainframe project: the System 360. In this capacity he oversaw
the implementation of all of the initial models in the System 360 family. 
In 1966
he became director of IBM's Advanced Computer Systems Lab in Menlo
Park, CA.


He left IBM in 1970 to become President of Raytheon Data Systems In
1972 he left RDS to found Palyn Associates, a computer consulting
and design services company. Palyn grew to become a well known
name in the field, eventually extending its scope to include venture
capital management and strategic market planning...