2004-07-08

Computer Pioneer Bob Bemer Passes Away

Who was Bob Bemer:
* the 'father or ASCII' character set.
* the 'grandfather' of COBOL.
* the inventor of ESCAPE and BACKSLASH sequences.
* the man behind the '8-bit' byte standardization.
* a pioneer in 3-D dynamic prespective.

Bob Bemer was awarded by IEEE Computer Society with the Computer Pioneer Award.

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