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Bob Bemer
KindPerson
Born1920
Died2004
StatusDead
Fieldcomputing
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

The father of ASCII — standardized the character set — and coined the terms COBOL and CODASYL.

Created COMTRAN

Called 'the father of ASCII' — led the standardization, created the escape sequence, coined 'COBOL' and 'software factory,' and warned about Y2K in 1971.\n\nThe man who made text portable between machines.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Bemer