The Legacy of Ken Olsen

Friends and former colleagues are encouraged to leave a memory about Olsen at Gordon College's website at www.gordon.edu/kenolsen Widely recognized as one of the 20th century's leading computer industry pioneers, Mr. Kenneth H. Olsen, founder and former CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), long time trustee at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, and alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), died Sunday, February 6, 2011. He would have been 85 years old on February 20. In 1957, he co-founded DEC in a refurbished mill in Maynard just outside of Boston, a company that grew to over 125000 employees in 86 countries. Countless CEOs, engineers and inventors recognize Olsen's technological innovations, leadership style and entrepreneurial philosophies as the foundation for today's information and computer networking industry. Under Olsen's 35-year leadership tenure, DEC pioneered the concepts behind interactive computing. Creating one of the first digital computers for commercial use, DEC marketed the "mini-computer" and set records in size and affordability. The company also set industry standards in program languages, operating systems, networking architectures, applications software, computer peripherals, component and circuit technology, manufacturing processes and business practices. Olsen had a particular fondness for Christian higher education. As an active member of Park Street Church in Boston, Olsen joined the board of Gordon College in ...



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