<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">What irony that the founder of the OS with the brand character named "Tux" didn't want to receive an award because he'd have to wear a tux!? 😝<br><br>Great story--thanks for sharing!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 3:29 PM jon.maddog.hall--- via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:12pt">I am sure that there are many people that are not represented in that row of pictures:<br><br></span>Alan Turing - considered to be the father of computer science, broke the enigma code, cut two years off WW II, saved an estimated 14,000,000 lives.
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<br>Dr. Maurice Wilkes - Head of the EDSAC Project (first computer that could store its own programming in its own memory); credited with creating microcode, credited with creation of subroutines
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<br>Ken Thompson
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<br>Dennis Ritchie
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<br>Douglas McIlroy - Head of the department that hired Ken and Dennis, conceived of pipes and filters, wrote some of first Unix commands to demonstrate their use, credited with the creation of macros.
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<br>Vint Cerf - Considered to be the Father of the Internet
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<br>Sir Tim Berners-Lee - Considered to be the Father of the WWW
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<br>Richard M. Stallman - started GNU project and FSF
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<br>There are many, many more.
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<br>The Computer History Museum (CHM) has a "Hall of Fellows", where they induct three people every year.
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<br><a href="https://computerhistory.org/hall-of-fellows/" target="_blank">https://computerhistory.org/hall-of-fellows/</a>
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<br>About the year 2005 I started thinking that it would be a shame if either Bill Gates or Steve Jobs got inducted into the Hall of Fellows before Linus did, so I got online and nominated Linus for induction. Then I forgot about it.
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<br>Two years later I got a telephone call from the CHM that Linus had been selected for the year 2008 and could I help CHM convince Linus that he really wanted to attend the ceremony (which he normally hates) to receive it.
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<br>I told them I was very happy that Linus had received the award and I would try to convince him to show up....but no promises.
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<br>I started to look at their web pages, and got an idea. I called up Linus (who by that time knew he had been inducted) and asked him if he would go. "I would have to wear a Tuxedo", Linus said. "I hate that".
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<br>"I know, but you would also get to turn the crank of a full-size replica of the Babbage Difference Engine, and see it compute" I said.
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<br>"I will go", Linus said. And he did go. And he did crank the engine. All was good.
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<br>And to this day neither Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs have been inducted....but The Woz made it in early.
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<br>And now you know the rest of the story.
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<br>md<br></div></div>
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