Emeriti Faculty
Jeremy
(Jay) E. Johnson
M.S. (Cornell University, 1956)
Associate Professor Emeritus
of Mechanical Engineering
Upon receiving a Master of Science Degree (Industrial Engineering)
in 1956 from Cornell University, Associate Professor Johnson
was employed first as a Staff Engineer and then Manager of Data
Processing for Scovill Manufacturing Company in Waterbury, Connecticut.
From 1 966 to 1 968 he was employed as Associate Director of
the Office of Computing Services at Cornell University in Ithaca,
NY. From 1968 until his retirement at the end of June, 1997.
he was employed by the University of Maine and the University
of Maine System. Since 1969 he has been Director of Computing
and Data Processing Services for the University of Maine System.
He was awarded tenure in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
on July 1, 1970.
Associate Professor Johnson had a distinguished career as Director
of Computing and Data Processing Services (CAPS) and left that
position with CAPS in excellent shape. During his tenure he has
made significant contributions in selection of mainframe operating
systems, introduction of microcomputers and the embracing of
networking. He was instrumental in the University being selected
as a test site for IBM's CP/CMS operating systems, which became
VM. He supported remote access to computing from as early as
1982 when we became the twelfth institution in the country to
join BITNET, connecting at Yale because there were no sites in
Northern New England.
In 1990, under his leadership, the University System's proposal
to NSFNET was one of four out of over 100 to be funded exactly
as requested. In 1993 CAPS began to offer network connections
outside the University System to educational and governmental
institutions. By 1996 there were over 400 of these and SO institutions
including colleges, high schools, and libraries. Overall, Associate
Professor Johnson has overseen CAPS during a time when significant
accomplishments have resulted in advanced services inside and
outside the University.
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