John Grason

John Grason is a US computer engineering professor who taught at Carnegie Mellon University in the late 1970's. He is noted for his work on PDP-16 Register Transfer Modules which were used both as a conceptual tool for describing computer architecture and as an actual prototyping system for building computers.

Grason graduated from Lehigh University with a BSEE in 1964 and from Carnegie Tech with an MSEE in 1965. As a student of Nobelist Herbert Simon at C-MU, Grason received a PhD in 1970 in the field of Systems and Communication Science. He became an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at C-MU by 1973. In 1978, Grason left C-MU to work at Bell Laboratories.

Publications

* Bell, C. G., Grason, J. Register Transfer Modules and their Design, Computer Design, May 1971.
* Bell, C.G., Grason, J., and Newell, A., Designing Computers and Digital Systems. Digital Press, Maynard, Mass., 1972.
* Rege, S., Grason, J., Computer aided design of digital systems, 1978.
* Bell, et. al, The architecture and applications of computer modules: a set of components for digital systems design, Compcon, IEEE 1973.

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