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Computer Engineer Wes Clark Dies at 88

Posted by timothy on from the let-us-now-praise-famous-men dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Wesley Allison Clark, a revered computer engineer whose work from the 1950s through 1970s underpinned the revolutions in personal computing, computer graphics, and the internet, died Monday. He was 88. Among other things, Clark was one of the two people (Charles Molnar being the other) who created LINC, the first mini-computer.

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  1. Internet by 110010001000 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One thing that people don't know about Wes is that during his service at Washington University he was one of the many who took the initiative to create the Internet. So you can thank him for that.