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MICHAEL L. DERTOUZOS
Pages 54-59

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... Upon graduating with a gymnasium diploma from Athens College in 1954, Michael moved from Athens to the Ozarks, having received a Fulbright scholarship to study electrical engineering at the University of Arkansas, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1957 and a master's degree in 1959. He then completed his Ph.D.
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From page 56...
... National Academy of Engineering for "creative leadership in computer science, technology and education." He received honorary doctorates from the Aristotelian University and the National Technical University in Greece. Michael: The Visionary Michael was first and foremost a visionary who spent much of the last quarter of the 20th century studying and forecasting future technological shifts.
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From page 57...
... It took nearly 20 years for the Internet and the World Wide Web to revolutionize the world economy and to prove him right. As Moore's law begins to run its course in the next decade, it will soon become obvious that we need to seriously exploit distributed computing, which was a passion of Michael's since the 1970s.
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From page 58...
... Since the mid-1990s, the World Wide Web consortium has been the leading force in maintaining coherence in the Web, providing standards for interoperability so that a multitude of browsers can access information from many different servers. Michael: The Educator Michael played a large role in bringing information technology into education at MIT.
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From page 59...
... Bill Gates, former chairman and chief software architect for Microsoft, said this about Michael: "More than anyone else in his field, Michael understood that technology -- particularly computer technology -- must serve people's needs, not the other way round. He was the first real ‘technology humanist' -- he believed that technology was largely worthless unless it truly enhanced human life, human communication, human work and play.
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