Today In Computer History : September 27, 1919 94 years ago James Wilkinson is born (d.1986), an English scientist, mathematician and discoverer of many significant algorithms. September 27, 1930 83 years ago Alan Shugart is born (d.2006), a pioneer of the computer disk drive and founder of Seagate Technology. September 27, 1954 59 years ago Larry Wall is born, the original developer of Perl. September 27, 1983 30 years ago The GNU project is first announced by Richard Stallman. September 27, 2001 12 years ago Jan de Wit aka OnTheFly is convicted for the Anna Kournikova virus.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 08:01:21 +0000