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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.

Dennis W. Wright was a member of the team assembled in 1969 to design the PROMIS, working under co-directors Joan E. Jacoby and Charles R. Work with project manager Bill Hamilton at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.1

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.2

Footnotes

  1. McEwen, J. Thomas. Management of Data Elements in Information Processing. National Bureau of Standards, 1974. ↩︎

  2. Federal Judicial Center. 1990 Annual Report. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/132273NCJRS.pdf. ↩︎