A bit of history: NY Times obituary for John W. Backus, 82, developer of
Fortran, without which CCP4 and much else would not have been possible.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/obituaries/20cnd-backus.html?ex=1332043200en=adde3ee5a1875330ei=5124partner=permalinkexprod=permalink
Pete A
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The storey also made it to the CNN business page and they add...
The Fortran programming language, which was a huge leap forward in
easing the creation of computer software, was released in 1957, said the
report.
Backus launched his research project at IBM (Charts) four years earlier,
I'm pretty sure that the crystallographer was David Sayre. I also believe
(not documented well enough for wikipedia, but perhaps for here)
that IBM were so pleased with this performance that they made David an IBM
Fellow, which meant that he could do anything he wanted for the rest of
his
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Robert Sweet
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I'm pretty sure that the crystallographer was David
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Robert Sweet wrote:
I'm pretty sure that the crystallographer was David Sayre.
Indeed it was. He is mentioned explicitly in this article:
http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/John_Backus_4.htm
Regards,
Peter.
