As a young art major at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Dr. Barbara Johnson once stood before blank canvases waiting for inspiration to strike. It arrived instead in a computer lab in 1984 ...

An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.

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