Google Doodle Honors MIT's Dertouzos Who Foresaw Internet's Impact
Google has honored Greek professor and reckoner scientist Michael Dertouzos's 82nd birth anniversary with a doodle today. Dertouzos is best known for foreseeing the popularity of net devices and how the Internet would impact everyday lives.
He also predicted the popularity of PCs, and helped maximize their potential as managing director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science. "We fabricated a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's fourth dimension to put the ii dorsum together," he wrote in Scientific American in 1997, once again showing foresight about problems that are affecting us today.
Born in Athens in 1936, Dertouzos was the son of a concert pianist and an admiral in the Greek navy. He attended the University of Arkansas on a Fulbright Scholarship, earned a PhD from MIT and joining the faculty in 1968.
Nether Dertouzos' guidance, the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science grew into a thriving research center employing hundreds of people collaborating on innovations like distributed systems, fourth dimension-sharing computers, the ArpaNet, and RSA encryption, an algorithm used to ensure secure data transmission.
Dertouzos recruited Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Www, to run MIT'due south LCS.
In his 1997 volume "What Will Be: How the New World of Information Volition Change Our Lives," Dertouzos, who passed away in August 2001, observed: "If we strip the hype away, a simple, well-baked and inevitable picture emerges — of an Information Marketplace where people and their computers will buy, sell and freely exchange information and information piece of work."
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