Farewell to John Warnock, an internet pioneer whose invention actually made the world better
techxplore.com
In June 1969, John E. Warnock achieved a milestone of sorts at the University of Utah by producing the shortest Ph.D. dissertation in the university's history.

Warnock, who died Saturday, was one of the leading computer scientists of his era and co-founder in 1982 of Adobe Inc.

  • marco@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    A vehemently disagree with any statement that claims PDF made the world better.

    OK, I can be a little more nuanced, the many ways PDFs are used today, for anything but printing something, are making the world a worse place.