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category: "Technologists"
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created: 2024-04-25
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updated: 2026-05-01
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- Person
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- PROMIS
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- INSLAW
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- DoJ
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summary: "Dennis W. Wright was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team who went on to work for INSLAW directly by 1974, and by 1990 was a Senior Research Computer Scientist in the DOJ's ICMS Re-engineering project within the Division of Innovations and Systems Development."
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Dennis W. Wright was a member of the team assembled in 1969 to design the [[PROMIS|Prosecutor's Management Information System]], working under co-directors [[Joan E. Jacoby]] and [[Charles R. Work]] with project manager [[Bill Hamilton]] at [[Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co]].[^2]
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By 1974 Wright was working for [[INSLAW]] directly. By 1990 he was employed by the [[Department of Justice]] as a Senior Research Computer Scientist in the ICMS Re-engineering project within the Division of Innovations and Systems Development -- the DOJ's Integrated Case Management System successor to PROMIS, which Wright had helped design two decades earlier.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Federal Judicial Center. *1990 Annual Report.* U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/132273NCJRS.pdf.
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[^2]: McEwen, J. Thomas. *Management of Data Elements in Information Processing.* National Bureau of Standards, 1974.
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