Roger Lee Sisson (June 24, 1926 – January 22, 1992) was an American early data processing pioneer.
Sisson worked on Project Whirlwind while a graduate student at MIT, co-founded the first consulting firm devoted to electronic data processing,[1] and published a number of the earliest books and periodicals on computers and data processing.
His thesis, written with Alfred Susskind, was on the digital to analog conversion for the cathode ray tube display.
Canning and Sisson also published one of the earliest computer periodicals, Data Processing Digest, starting in 1955.
[3] Sisson died on January 22, 1992, in New York City, of sudden cardiac arrest, at the age of 65.