Robert William Bemer . Famous American computer scientist.
Summary
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 1 Working life
- 2 Inventions and recognitions
- 3 Source
Biographical synthesis
He was born on 8 of February of 1920 in Sault Ste. Marie , Michigan and died on June 22 of the 2004 in Possum Kingdom Lake , Texas ) was a computer known for his work at IBM in recent years 50 and early 60s.
Laboral life
Rob Bemer , becoming a programmer in early 1949 , worked at the RAND Corporation , Marquardt , Lockheed , IBM , Univac , GE Bull , General Electric, and Honeywell .
Inventions and recognitions
- At Lockheed, he devised the first computerized 3-D with dynamic perspective, a prelude to computer animation today.
At IBM, he developed:
- PRINT I (the load-and-go first computer method .
- FORTRANSIT (the first major test of intercomputer portability , and the second FORTRAN compiler ).
- Business Translator (a COBOL entry ).
- XTRAN (a predecessor ALGOL ).
- In March of 1957 , he was the first to describe the timeshare business to the public, which is now seen as the World Wide Web .
- In 1959 the IBM internal memorandum proposes word processing .
- Identification divisions and Environment of COBOL are due to him, the same as the picture clause , which could have avoided the problem of the year 2000 if used correctly.
- He coined the terms ” COBOL “, ” CODASYL “, and ” Software Factory “.
- It was the main force in ASCII development, contributing 10 characters – Escape (see that key), FS, GS, RS, US , {}, [,], and the backslash).
- He invented the escape sequence and the register concept, and it’s called the ” Parent of ASCII .”
- He wrote the original scope, the international and national computer standards work program , and chaired the international committee for programming language standards for eleven years.
- He was President of the ACM 70 Program , promoter of the National Computer Year (when the Y2K problem should have been solved), and edited procedures such as the book ” Computers and Crisis “.
- As editor of PC Honeywell magazine (the first A4-size publication 1971 in the US ) he innovated tab publishing and multimedia publishing .
- He published more than 115 articles in technical journals .
- In 1995 he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award at Albion College .
- In 2000 it was named in the Delta Tau Delta “Rainbow” as one of the “100 most influential Delts of the 20th century “.
- He is recognized as the first person in the world to publish trouble notices for the year 2000 – first in 1971 , and again in 1979 . For this, it has appeared on CNET , NBC Nightly News , CNN , Good Morning America , the BBC , Good Morning Australia , and local television stations , it has appeared in the Wall Street Journal , New Yorker , New York Times , Time Magazine , Vanity Fair , the Baltimore Sun , Scrippsand Gannett .
