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ROBERT M. FANO
Pages 93-98

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... He was 98. During his 75 years at MIT he played a critical role in establishing computer science as an academic discipline.
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... Adler and Lan Jen Chu, the pivotal textbooks Electromagnetic Energy Transmission and Radiation (John Wiley & Sons, 1960) and Electromagnetic Fields, Energy, and Forces (MIT Press, 1968)
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... As founding director of Project MAC, Bob created a crossdisciplinary organization and vibrant research space that was later home to the development of Multics, one of the world's first operating systems and a direct influence on systems such as Unix, Linux, and OSX. Project MAC grew in size and scope to become MIT's largest interdepartmental research lab, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
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... Education Medal for his contributions to the teaching of electrical engineering. Among his other honors, he was a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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