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Interview with C. Gordon Bell; he sees the future, and wants the past stored and memorialized. ACM: Ubiquity.
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CyberAll: Everywhere and Forever
C. Gordon Bell has been a leader in information technology for three
decades, and has been senior research consultant at Microsoft since 1995. He
was an assistant director for computing at the National Science Foundation
from 1986 to 1988, and vice president for
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Grace Murray Hopper Award, given to outstanding young computer professional of 1984, based on one major technical or service contribution. Ingalls helped develop Smalltalk language and its graphics facilities, and designed the BITBLT primitive.
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1984 – Daniel H.H. Ingalls
For his work at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where he was a
major force, both technical and inspirational, in the development of the SMALLTALK language
and its graphics facilities. He is the design of the BITBLT primitive that is now widely
used for
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Grace Murray Hopper Award, given to outstanding young computer professional of 1971, based on one major technical or service contribution. Knuth published in 1968, Volume I of his monumental treatise The Art of Computer Programming.
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1971 – Donald E. Knuth
For the publication in 1968 (at age 30) of Volume I of his monumental
treatise "The Art of Computer Programming.
ACM recognizes excellence through its eminent series of awards for outstanding
technical and professional achievements and contributions in computer
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Substantive, meaty, medium long. [ACM: Ubiquity]
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SINGULARITY: UBIQUITY INTERVIEWS RAY KURZWEIL
[Ray Kurzweil is one of the world's leading inventors, thinkers and futurists. His latest book is the just-published "The Singularity Is Near."]
UBIQUITY: How is the new book doing?
KURZWEIL: Very well -- it's in its fourth printing, and has been
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Grace Murray Hopper Award, given to outstanding young computer professional of 1978, based on one major technical or service contribution. Kurzweil developed unique reading machine for blind to read printed pages aloud, via program rules to reliably, automatically recognize characters of many sizes, shapes.
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1978 – Raymond Kurzweil
For his development of a unique reading machine for the blind, a computer-based
device that reads printed pages aloud. The Kurzweil machine is an 80-pound device that shoots a beam
of light across each printed page, converts the reflected light across each printed
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Interview. ACM: Ubiquity.
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Talking with Terry Winograd
Convergence, ambient technology, and success in innovation
Terry Winograd is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he directs the program on human-computer interaction. His SHRDLU program done at the MIT AI Lab was one of the early explorations in
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