Michael Dertouzos : Greek computer scientist.
Summary
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 1 Studies
- 2 Death
- 3 Sources
Biographical synthesis
He was born on November 5, 1936 in Athens (Greece). Son of an officer in the Greek army and a concert pianist.
Studies
He moved to Arkansas , United States , on a Fulbright scholarship. There he finished his career and received his doctorate from MIT in 1964 and obtained a residency position in 1974 .
In 1976 he predicted that by the mid-1990s there would be a personal computer in one out of every four homes, although his most surprising prediction came in 1980 , when he described in detail a network that was already advertising the Internet.
Among his popular works, what will be, an authentic publishing phenomenon in the United States, and The Unfinished Revolution stand out. He was the main promoter of the World Wide Web Consortium, a forum of companies and organizations that run the network of networks.
He directed the computer lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Time magazine cited him as the most influential computer scientist in the world.
Death
Michael Dertouzos passed away in Boston ( United States ) on August 27 , 2001 .
