Monday’s Google Doodle commemorated computer system researcher Michael Dertouzos.
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A Google Doodle on Monday commemorated the life of Michael Dertouzos, who visualized how the web would alter the world.
Dertouzos was born in Athens, Greece onNov 5, 1936, and went on to make aPh D. from the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology He signed up with MIT’s professors and ended up being director of its Laboratory for Computer Science in 1974.
He led a lot of the laboratories’ developments and growths, and made it the United States base of the the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)– the primary global requirements company supervising the World Wide Web’s advancement. He got Tim Berners-Lee, the web’s developer, to run it.
Dertouzos was checking out the idea of “The Information Marketplace” by the early 1980 s and laid it out in his 1997 book What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives.
“If we strip the hype away,” he composed. “A simple, crisp and inevitable picture emerges — of an Information Marketplace where people and their computers will buy, sell and freely exchange information and information work.”
He constantly focused utilizing on innovation for mankind’s improvement, an idea show by the title of his last book, 2001’s The Unfinished Revolution: Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do For Us.
“We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism,” Dertouzos stated in an interview in ScientificAmerican “It’s time to put the two back together.”
He likewise visualized how available the web would end up being.
“I think the movement that we’re seeing will be fully integrated into our lives; it will be pretty much like air, water, breathing,” he stated at the World Economic Forum in1997 “It will not be a cyberspace out there that we go visit, it’ll be in everything we do.”
He passed away in Massachusetts onAug 27, 2001, at the age of 64.
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