Robert Overton Evans

(1927-2004) born in Grand Island, lived at Shelton. Electronics executive, was the father of International Business Machines S/360 family of computers, a most successful production that set technical and design standards for the entire data processing industry, elected to National Academy of Engineering; recipient as leader of International Business Machines Corporation team the National Medal of Technology in 1985; inducted into Computer History Museum Hall of Fellows at Mountain View, California in 2004. Consult Historical Dictionary of Data Processing: Biographies (Greenwood Press, 1987) 89-91 and American Men & Women of Science, 21st ed, Vol 2 (2003) 989 and New York Times obituary, September 8, 2004, p. A-22.

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