Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)
by Andrew L. Russell · 27 Apr 2014 · 675pp · 141,667 words
the Computer Industry,” in Richard E. Caves and Marc J. Roberts, eds., Regulating the Product: Quality and Variety (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1975), 85–91. 51 Bob Bemer, “Thoughts on the Past and Future,” http://www.bobbemer.com (accessed May 22, 2011); W. E. Andrus to Business Equipment Manufacturers Association, June 6, 1962
Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
by John P. Carlin and Garrett M. Graff · 15 Oct 2018 · 568pp · 164,014 words
individual company at the time, the trade-off seemed worth it in the moment. “It was the fault of everybody, just everybody,” said computer pioneer Bob Bemer, who was one of the first to identify the looming glitch.12 Ultimately, fixing the Y2K bug cost US companies and the US government an
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,” Computer Communication Review, vol. 18, no. 4, August 1988, 106–114, tdc.iorc.depaul.edu/media/internet-design-philosophy.pdf. 12. Patricia Sullivan, “Computer Pioneer Bob Bemer, 84,” Washington Post, June 25, 2004, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4138-2004Jun24.html. 13. Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “Y2K Repair Bill: $100 Billion,” Washington Post
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication From Ancient Times to the Internet
by David Kahn · 1 Feb 1963 · 1,799pp · 532,462 words
, and probably not one in the world. Even an injection of the wonder drug of modern business—the electronic computer—failed to stem the decline. Robert W. Bemer of I.B.M. proposed placing a business vocabulary in a computer memory and assigning digital “codewords” to its words and phrases on the
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of the Cables,” Popular Science Monthly, CXXVIII (March, 1936), 22-23, 86. 850 not a single practicing code compiler today: Mitchel interview. 850 “digital shorthand”: Robert W. Bemer, “Do It By the Numbers—Digital Shorthand,” Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, III (1960), 530-536; mimeographed I.B.M. press release
The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
by Nathan L. Ensmenger · 31 Jul 2010 · 429pp · 114,726 words
just wondered if anyone else did.”3 Figure 3.1 IBM Advertisement, New York Times, May 31, 1969. The IBM manager they spoke to was Robert W. Bemer, a “fast-talking, sandy-haired man of about thirty-five,” who by virtue of his eight-years experience was already considered, in the fast