Dr. John William Poduska, Sr was a founder of Prime Computer

Prime Computer

Prime Computer, Inc. was a Natick, Massachusetts-based producer of minicomputers from 1972 until 1992. The alternative spellings "PR1ME" and "PR1ME Computer" were used as brand names or logos by the company.-Founders:...

, Apollo Computer

Apollo Computer

Apollo Computer, Inc., founded 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts by William Poduska and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo was one of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s...

, and Stellar Computer

Stardent Inc.

-History:Stardent Inc. was formed from the merger of Ardent Computer Corporation and Stellar Computer Inc.. The merger was announced on August 30, 1989. Ardent was based in Sunnyvale, California and Stellar was based in Newton, Massachusetts. In early July 1990, the west coast portion of...

. Prior to that he headed the Electronics Research Lab at NASA's Cambridge, Massachusetts facility and also worked at Honeywell

Honeywell

Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....

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Poduska has been involved in a number of other high-tech startups. He also serves on the boards of Novell

Novell

Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise...

, Anadarko Petroleum, Anystream

Anystream

Anystream is an Internet software company that specializes in streaming media encoding technology.The company designs scalable software that automated the laborious process of encoding and transcoding media for demanding broadcast and production environments...

, Boston Ballet

Boston Ballet

Boston Ballet, founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Boston Ballet’s national and international reputation developed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Violette Verdy , Bruce Marks , and Anna-Marie Holmes...

, Wang Center

Wang Center

Wang Center may refer to :*Citi Performing Arts Center, located in Boston, Massachusetts, was known as the "Wang Center for the Performing Arts" from 1983 to 2006, due to the financial donation and work of computer entrepreneur An Wang . In 2006, the Center received its current name due to a...

 and the Boston Lyric Opera

Boston Lyric Opera

Boston Lyric Opera is an American opera company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1976.Each season, BLO produces three mainstage productions at the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre in Boston and a fully staged, one-hour English language version of a popular opera for school...

, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering

The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...

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He earned a S.B. and S.M. in electrical engineering, both in 1960, from MIT. He also earned a Sc.D. in EECS

EECS

EECS may refer to:* Electrical Engineering & Computer Science* European Energy Certificate System...

 from MIT in 1962. He is a recipient of the McDowell Award

McDowell Award

The W. Wallace McDowell Award is awarded by the IEEE Computer Society for outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other similar innovative contributions that fall within the scope of Computer Society interest...

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