16 Oct
2018
16 Oct
'18
6:08 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:40 AM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
Perhaps I've mentioned this short movie from 1971 before, but it's well
worth a watch: "Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing" (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjZ7ktIlSM0)
Licklider, Khan and other players from the early days of the ARPAnet figure
prominently. It's amazingly prescient.
- Dan C.
From: Dave
Horsfall
We lost ... on this day
An email from someone on a related topic has reminded me of someone else
you
should make sure is only your list (not sure if you already have him):
J. C. R. Licklider; we lost him on June 26, 1990.
He didn't write much code himself, but the work of people he funded (e.g.
Doug Engelbart, the ARPANet guys, Multics, etc, etc, etc) to work on his
vision has led to today's computerized, information-rich world. For people
who
only know today's networked world, the change from what came before, and
thus
his impact on the world (since his ideas and the work of people he
sponsored
led, directly and indirectly, to much of it), is probably hard to truly
fathom.
He is, in my estimation, one of the most important and influential computer
scientists of all. I wonder how many computer science people had more of an
impact; the list is surely pretty short. Babbage; Turing; who else?