With amazing insight, Willis Ware said in 1966:
“The computer will touch men everywhere and in every way, almost on a minute-to-minute basis. Every man will communicate through a computer whatever he does. It will change and reshape his life, modify his career and force him to accept a life of continuous change.”
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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Ware
Oral Histories at the Babbage Institute:
1981: http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107699
2003: http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107703.2
Spaf's memorial: https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/blog/post/the_passing_of_a_pioneer/
Willis Ware's author page at RAND: http://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/w/ware_willis_h.html
Memorial at RAND: http://www.rand.org/blog/2013/11/willis-ware-computer-pioneer-helped-build-early-machines.html
PDF of declassified version of the 1970 edition of the Ware Report: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/ware70.pdf
Willis Ware's papers at the U of Minnesota: http://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/3/resources/54
Inducted into the (US) National Cyber Security Hall of Fame 2013 http://www.cybersecurityhalloffame.com/
From the Cyber Security Hall of Fame page:
Computer Scientist emeritus at RAND Corporation
"The late Willis H. Ware (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1951) was a senior computer scientist emeritus with the RAND Corporation. An electrical engineer, he devoted his career to hardware, software, architectures, software development, networks, federal agency and military applications, management of computer-intensive projects, public policy and legislation.
"Dr. Ware was a member of the NAE, a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS,and ACM. He received the U.S. Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal (1979), the IEEE Centennial Medal (1984), the National Computer System Security Award (1989), and the IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (1993)."
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