Maxwell O Paley
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Max Paley (? 1927 - 18 September 1988), President and founder of Palyn Associates (Campbell CA) was an accomplished computer scientist.
Maxwell O. Paley was born in Poughkeepsie N.Y. in 1927. After completing WW II military service he received his BS in EE from Penn State University in 1949. He joined IBM and rose rapidly in their Engineering organization. He managed IBM's first transistorized computer project, an experimental IBM 608. He was Engineering Manager of IBM's defining computer mainframe project: the System 360. In this capacity he oversaw the implementation of all of the initial models in the System 360 family. In 1966 he became director of IBM's Advanced Computer Systems Lab in Menlo Park, CA.
He left IBM in 1970 to become President of Raytheon Data Systems In 1972 he left RDS to found Palyn Associates, a computer consulting and design services company, with Mike Flynn. Palyn grew to become a well known name in the field, eventually extending its scope to include venture capital management and strategic market planning.
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