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Charles Edwin Molnar (1935–1996) was a co-developer of one of the first minicomputer
Minicomputer

A minicomputer is a class of multi-user computers that lies in the middle range of the computing spectrum, in between the largest multi-user systems and the smallest single-user systems ....
s, the LINC
LINC

The LINC was a 12-bit, 2048-word computer. The LINC can be considered the first minicomputer and a foreruner to the personal computer.The LINC and other "MIT Group" machines were designed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and eventually built by Digital Equipment Corporation ....
 (Laboratory Instrument Computer), while a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1962. His collaborator was Wesley A. Clark
Wesley A. Clark

Wesley Allison Clark is a computer scientist and one of the main participants, along with Charles Molnar, in the creation of the LINC laboratory computer, which was the first mini-computer and shares with a number of other computers the claim to be the inspiration for the personal computer....
.

The LINC originated decades before the advent of the personal computer. Its development was the result of a National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research....
 (NIH) program that placed 20 copies of an early LINC prototype in selected biomedical research laboratories nationwide.






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Charles Edwin Molnar (1935–1996) was a co-developer of one of the first minicomputer
Minicomputer

A minicomputer is a class of multi-user computers that lies in the middle range of the computing spectrum, in between the largest multi-user systems and the smallest single-user systems ....
s, the LINC
LINC

The LINC was a 12-bit, 2048-word computer. The LINC can be considered the first minicomputer and a foreruner to the personal computer.The LINC and other "MIT Group" machines were designed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and eventually built by Digital Equipment Corporation ....
 (Laboratory Instrument Computer), while a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1962. His collaborator was Wesley A. Clark
Wesley A. Clark

Wesley Allison Clark is a computer scientist and one of the main participants, along with Charles Molnar, in the creation of the LINC laboratory computer, which was the first mini-computer and shares with a number of other computers the claim to be the inspiration for the personal computer....
.

The LINC originated decades before the advent of the personal computer. Its development was the result of a National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research....
 (NIH) program that placed 20 copies of an early LINC prototype in selected biomedical research laboratories nationwide. Later, the LINC was produced in greater numbers by Digital Equipment Corp. and other computer manufacturers. Later he was on the faculty of Washington University.

Charlie Molnar was also well known as a pioneer in the modeling of the auditory system
Auditory system

The auditory system is the sensory system for the sense of hearing ....
, especially numerical models of the function of the cochlea
Cochlea

The cochlea is the auditory portion of the inner ear. Its core component is the Organ of Corti, the sensory organ of hearing , which is distributed along the partition separating fluid chambers in the coiled tapered tube of the cochlea....
 (the inner ear).

When he died in 1996, he was working at Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a multinational corporation vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services, founded on February 24, 1982....
 on asynchronous circuit
Asynchronous circuit

An asynchronous circuit is a electrical network in which the parts are largely autonomous. They are not governed by a clock circuit or global clock signal, but instead need only wait for the signals that indicate completion of instructions and operations....
s, with Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Edward Sutherland is an United States computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers....
.

Molnar received a bachelor's degree (1956) and a master's degree (1957) in electrical engineering from Rutgers University
Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766 and is the Colonial colleges in the United States....
, where he was a member of the Cap and Skull
Cap and Skull

Cap and Skull is a senior-year honor society at Rutgers University, founded on January 18, 1900.Admission to Cap and Skull is dependent upon excellence in academics, Sports, the arts and volunteer....
 Society, and received a doctoral degree (1966) from MIT in electrical engineering.

Important publications


Molnar's significant publications included the following:

  • Clark, W.A. and C.E. Molnar, 1964, "The LINC," Anal. New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 115, pp. 653–658.


  • Clark, W.A. and C.E. Molnar, 1965, "A Description of the LINC," Computers in Biomedical Research, Vol II, B.D. Waxman and R. Stacey, eds, Academic Press, New York, NY.


  • Model for the Convergence of Inputs Upon Neurons in the Cochlear Nucleus, D.Sc. Thesis, MIT, 1966.


  • Chaney, T.J. and C.E. Molnar, "Anomalous Behavior of Synchronizer and Arbiter Circuits," IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. C-22, No. 4, pp. 421–422, Apr. 1973.


  • Kim, D.O., C.E. Molnar, and R. R. Pfeiffer, 1973, "A system of nonlinear differential equations modeling basilar-membrane motion," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 54(6):1517–29 Dec. 1973.


  • Clark, W.A. and C.E. Molnar, 1974, "Macromodular Computer Systems," Computers in Biomedical Research, pp. 45–85, Vol IV, B.D. Waxman and R. Stacey, eds, Academic Press, New York, NY.


  • Kim, D.O. and C.E. Molnar: Cochlear mechanics: Measurements and models, in The Nervous System, Vol. 3, Human Communication and Its Disorders, edited by DB Tower (Raven, New York) 1975; pp 57–68


  • Sproull, R.F., I.E. Sutherland, and C.E. Molnar, 1994, "The Counterflow Pipeline Architecture," IEEE Design and Test of Computers, Vol. 11, no.3, pp. 44–59.


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