January 2000
Computing's Johnny Appleseed
Almost forgotten today, J.C.R. Licklider mentored the generation that created computing as we know it.
By M. Mitchell Waldrop
Often, says Tim Anderson, thinking back to the mid-1970s and his time as a student at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, you'd walk into the terminal room and there he'd be: Professor J.C.R. Licklider, typing code with his own 10 fingers.
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