His doctorate is believed by many and so reported by ACM to have been the first ever awarded by a formally recognized Computer Science department.
He is said to be the originator of Wexelblat's scheduling algorithm: "Choose two of: good, fast, cheap."
Andries van Dam completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Moore School only a few weeks after Richard.
Speaking of pioneers, Paul Wexelblat wrote code for the Interface Message Processor packet switching node, part of the earliest version of the Internet, and is a true Internet pioneer.
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