W. Richard Stevens
W. Richard Stevens
William RichardStevenswas a Northern Rhodesia-born American author of computer science books, in particular books on UNIX and TCP/IP...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth5 May 1909
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The next 8 years were spent working in New Haven for Health Systems International, which was lots of fun, but that's another story.
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My first encounter with computers was in 1968 as a Freshman engineering student at the University of Michigan, taking a required Fortran IV class.
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It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.