Re: [FRIAM] Wonderful History of Computing obit-- Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Dies at 93

2019-07-14 Thread Frank Wimberly
When I was a graduate student in computer science at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) in the early seventies, there was no one to teach a graduate course in operating systems. At that time, the issues were multiprogramming, deadlocks, interprocess communication, etc. They decided to hire an MI

[FRIAM] Wonderful History of Computing obit-- Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Dies at 93

2019-07-14 Thread Tom Johnson
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/science/fernando-corbato-dead.html FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archiv