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Robert J. Spinrad 1932-2009
Robert J. Spinrad 1932-2009
Pages 376-381
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He was a regents scholar and the student council president, and in his senior year he built his own computer from discarded telephone switching equipment. computer science was not yet part of the curriculum, and most people had no interest in his machine.
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in electrical engineering in 1963. He also spent a summer at Los Alamos National Laboratories, learning about scientific computer design; back at Brookhaven he designed a roomsized computer he named Merlin, using vacuum tubes, as the use of transistors was not yet prevalent.
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These included Harvard, stanford, MiT, the University of california at Berkeley, the Jet Propulsion laboratory, educom (the trade name for the interuniversity communications council, inc., an organization dedicated to the idea that digital computers offered an incredible opportunity for sharing among institutions of higher education) , the National science foundation, the National research council, the council on foreign relations, the U.s.
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He was, until the end, modest and positive and enjoyed the respect and affection of all who knew him. He was one of those rare individuals who made our world a far better place than he found it.
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