blaming Bush. Odd is it may sound, it was nice to read this obituary.
I passed it along to a couple geek friends as well. It reminds me that
even ordinary men can be the giant's shoulders.
-Kevin
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:32:05 -0400, Earl, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It never ceases to amaze me how few are responsible for so much of what we
> take for granted today . . .
>
> George
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> washingtonpost.com
> Computer Pioneer Bob Bemer, 84
>
> By Patricia Sullivan
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Friday, June 25, 2004; Page B06
>
> Robert W. "Bob" Bemer, 84, who helped invent the language used by most of
> the world's computers to translate text to numbers and who was the first
> scientist to warn of the Y2K problem, died of cancer June 22 at his home on
> Possum Kingdom Lake in Texas.
>
> Without the invention of the computer code ASCII, there would be no e-mail,
> no World Wide Web, no laser printers and no video games. Mr. Bemer, known as
> "the father of ASCII," created the code in 1961 by assigning standard
> numeric values to letters, numbers, punctuation marks and other characters.
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