Gordon Bell Computer engineer
“He helped make computing much more widespread and more personal.”
From This is True for 26 May 2024
computing
Computer and Internet pioneers and visionaries.
Al Boss Web accessibility engineer
Al was a friend of mine, and a really cool one at that.
From This is True for 19 May 2024
David Mills Timekeeper
Thanks to Mills, computers can not just tell time, but tell it accurately.
From This is True for 21 January 2024
Niklaus Wirth Programming pioneer
Pascal? Yeah, he wrote that too.
From This is True for 7 January 2024
Molly Holzschlag Open web proponent
Holzschlag was a proponent of the Open Web. What’s that?
From This is True for 10 September 2023
John Goodenough Physicist
“Not knowing either the full potential of our invention or any other option, we signed our rights away.”
From This is True for 2 July 2023
Abraham Lempel Computer scientist
Lempel was interested in data compression, and his work is still in use on your computer and phone.
From This is True for 12 February 2023
Kathleen Britten Booth Software pioneer
Booth wrote the first assembly language for a general-purpose computer, symbolic machine code that computers can “understand” without interpretation.
From This is True for 30 October 2022
Ken Knowlton Computer art pioneer
“BEFLIX” (for Bell Flicks) was the first language specific to generating computer-driven animation.
From This is True for 26 June 2022
David Walden The IMPish
“I had the program listing beside my telephone at home, and would get telephone calls at home whenever something stopped.”
From This is True for 8 May 2022