Thanks for posting this, Hugh. Very interesting. Peter
> C. C. "Kelly" Gotlieb died on October 16 at age 95. Kelly was one of > the zeroth generation of Canadian Computing. Probably the last I > knew. > > (I don't remember ever calling him "Kelly" to his face. I never felt > that I was a peer of his. At one point he and I had neigbouring > offices in a backwater of the Sanford Flemming Building so I got to > have a few unhurried chats with him.) > > <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/kelly-gotlieb-was-the-father-of-canadian-computing/article32672798/> > > Nit picking the Globe article: > > - there was no reasonable way to send a gigabyte of data by teletype in > the 1950s. The typical speed would be 10 characters per second (110 > baud) or less. A gigabyte would take three years solid. And > nothing could easily store it. > > - I don't think that Kelly had long talks with Turing. I asked Kelly > about Turing and my recollection is that Turing was not very > conversational with Kelly. Of course my recollection is not 100% > reliable. > > - His PhD thesis my well still be classified -- Kelly liked to tell > that story. But I don't think it was about "cybernetics". It came > out of his work with the team that studied artillery shells with the > new and secret "proximity fuse". This allied invention was perhaps as > secret and important as the atomic bomb in World War II. > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze> > <https://www.npa.org/public/interviews/careers_interview_331.cfm> > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Peter Hiscocks Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto http://www.syscompdesign.com USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator 647-839-0325 --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
