Assn for Computing Machinery on Nostr: Today, let’s remember Charles Thacker, who was born on this day in 1943. Thacker ...

Today, let’s remember Charles Thacker, who was born on this day in 1943. Thacker received the #ACMTuringAward in 2009 for the pioneering design and realization of the first modern personal computer -- the Alto at Xerox PARC -- and seminal inventions and contributions to local area networks (including the Ethernet), multiprocessor workstations, snooping cache coherence protocols, and tablet personal computers.

Read more about him, here: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/thacker_1336106.cfm #OTD