Elliott Irving Organick (February 25, 1925 – December 21, 1985) was a computer scientist and pioneer in operating systems development and education.
He was considered "the foremost expositor writer of computer science", and was instrumental in founding the ACM Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education.
[1] Organick described the Burroughs large systems in an ACM monograph of which he was the sole author, covering the work of Robert (Bob) Barton and others.
By the mid 1970s he had become "the foremost expositor writer of computer science"; he published 19 books.
He taught at the University of Utah, where a Memorial Lecture series was established in his name.