Jerome Howard "Jerry" Saltzer (born October 9, 1939) is an American computer scientist.
Multics, though not particularly commercially successful in itself, has had a major impact on all subsequent operating systems; in particular, it was an inspiration for Ken Thompson to develop Unix.
"Saltzer@mit.edu" is one of the few Athena usernames with a capital letter, and legend has it that several special case hacks were required to support this functionality.
In September 1995 Saltzer retired from his full-time faculty position, but continued writing and teaching part-time at MIT.
[5] Saltzer is also very interested in 19th century landscape art of the western United States; he has prepared the catalogue raisonné of the paintings of the painter Frederick Ferdinand Schafer (de).