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alan turing, anyone...
alan turing, anyone... anyone ?
alan turing is not unsung...
I would have to say that even non-techies may have heard of Alan Turing; he has featured in several movies.
Within their fields a lot of these guys are not unsung. Any Java developer would recognize James Gosling, or at least his name, just as any Fortran developer would likely know who Backus was. And to any computer-historian writing a book, Doug Engelbart is usually worthy of a chapter. That is not to say that they do not belong on this list as they are relatively unknown outside their fields, it is just to note that they may not always be unsung.
Alan Turing on a Father's Day List?
Despite the incredible importance of his works compared to the relative obscurity he remains in today, Alan Turing won't ever make it to a fun, fathers day list because of his:
Certainly, no matter the importance of a woman's invention, you wouldn't expect to see her in a father's day list, right? It's just the nature of such lists, and nothing to detract from Alan Turing or his role as father of modern computer science.
enigma machine
Yes, Turing was an amazing guy. At this year's RSA conference, there were two ``Enigma Machines,'' the German code machines that Turing cracked during WWII. At RSA, you could write a message on one machine and have it de-coded on the other one. It was pretty cool.
The Father of "Father of...." stories: Neal Weinberg
Yes, I think that title goes to NW's own Neal W., who also did this story in 2004:
Saluting digital dads
Unsung....and ripped off
My father invented and patented the retractable seat beat. Showing it to GM and offering a license deal, they ended up stealing the idea. So to him, I bestow a unsung father of technology shout-out!
GM ripped off the guy who invented the intermittent wind shield wiper too. It took him 15 years of law suits to ultimately win a $75 million dollar judgment against them.
Another father
Steve Sasson, father of the digital camera.
the digital camera
Bob Metcalfe?
Bob Metcalfe is the father of Ethernet. He went on to form 3Com.
While far from unknown,
While far from unknown, Steve Wozniak gets way too little credit from the mainstream consumer. Steve Jobs is not the sole creator of apple and all of it's fruity goodness. It was Woz, quietly working away in the background that did the real innovation.
who's the father of technology?
First, we must define an area of technology to find the father of technology. Let's consider the store & forward packet switching technology - that started all forms of modern computer-controlled networking. That should make Melvin L. Doelz the real father who invented the first commercial modem followed by a S/F message switch.
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