receives the turing award 2005, acm announced.

so algol 60 will be a headline again ;)

Naur dislikes the very term computer science and suggests it be called dataology. (biographybase)

the other story of 0 and 1. collected, not told.

patent nr 888335, typebar page printer, 1903. 36 characters. no need for 0 nor 1. History Of Teletype Development: in 1902 a young electrical engineer named frank pearne ...

zero and one is and was a problem, well but it this way: for a long long time. much ado about nothing is a nice paper on the topic. it's a collection of a discussion process, starting 1958 until 1967: towards standards for handwritten zero and oh, mean the character between n and p. collected by r.w.bemer, 1967. a paper i which the opinion of nasa, ibm,asa and share are united.

the problem remains unsolved, when i consider the line on my tans: we don't use o, they say. back than the topic was discussed at some points at a problem of keybuncher and man's recognition.

An early step in a data processing cycle is the transcription of data from a form legible to humans to a form capable of being sensed by machines. Prior to this transcription act, data are often transmitted from man to man as hand-lettered documents.(alphameric characters, c, kerpelman, 1969)

baudot code ...
bob bemer: cobol, ascii, escape, backslash
ascii
cad before 1970 by m.bozdoc somewhere i have some old magazines of hard&soft, who had stories on cad ...