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Fernando 'Corby' Corbató - (Corbató, Fernando)

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Fernando José "Corby" Corbató was an award-winner computer science pioneer, and the inventor of the use of passwords to secure computer systems. 

 

Oral history at the Babbage Institute: https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107230

 

Coverage of his passing at the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48988091

 

“It’s no overstatement to say that Corby’s work on time-sharing fundamentally transformed computers as we know them today. From PCs to smartphones, the digital revolution can directly trace its roots back to the work that he led at MIT nearly 60 years ago.”

MIT's CSAIL Director Daniela Rus quoted in this tribute at the CSAIL site: https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/fernando-corby-corbato-1926-2019

 

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_J._Corbat%C3%B3

 

Dr. Corbató's page at the Turing Awards website: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/corbato_1009471.cfm

 

Obituary at MIT News: http://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-professor-emeritus-fernando-corby-corbato-computing-pioneer-dies-0715

 

 

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