https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mashey
+ Member AAAS (#science), AGU (#climate), APS (#physics); #CSLDF; #NCSE; #disinformation;
#energy, #climate, public health issues (esp tobacco):
http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/170510-JohnMashey-slides.pdf
Member ACM, IEEE CS;
originator of phrase “Big Data” ~1993.
Recent: “Interactions, Impacts and Coincidences of the First Golden Age of Computer Architecture”
http://techviser.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Mashey.IEEE_.Micro_.2022.pdf
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Fond memories: when wiorking vacation jobs just up the street at US Bureau of Mines Pittsburgh Mining Research Center ~1967-69, I used to take decks of punch cards to run jobs on Pitt’s IBM 7090, also houses in the Cathedral.
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The Computer History Museum has one sci-fi book, the Shockwave Rider(1975), about a dystopian future in which most people are (correctly) worried that powerful others can access their personal data and use it against them. It also introduced computer “worms” with “replicating tails” that were unkillable. When I read this in 1975, Iaughed a bit… until a few weeks later I saw one, Ken Thompson’s famed hack (Turing lecture).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider