Communications of the ACM / Grace Murray Hopper Award Recepient (excerpts):
.... Scherr went directly from MIT to IBM, where he has worked for the past 22 years....
.... He received the award for his thesis on time-sharing systems, which at IBM became the basis for the Time Sharing Option (TSO) and later the Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS) system for the 370-series computers....
.... Frenkel's profile of Scherr reveals a man at the center of large projects, managing hundreds of people scattered across the globe and fashioning programs having thousands of line of code....
.... For many, such a job would be a nightmare, but Scherr thoroughly enjoys the work---so much so that he continues to do it even though, as an IBM Fellow since 1984, he is now free to do anything he wishes to.