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Google is paying tribute to Greek computer scientist Michael Dertouzos with a doodle on his 82nd birth anniversary.
Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laboratory for Computer Science, Dertouzos is mostly remembered for foreseeing how the internet would impact our daily life.
The doodle features a man standing against a blackboard with a chalk in hand along with images of spreadsheets and microchips.
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Born on November 5, 1936, in Greece to a concert pianist and an admiral, Dertouzos graduated from Athens college. He earned a Ph.D. from MIT and started teaching there from 1968. The same year, he co-founded Computek, Inc., a manufacturer of graphics and intelligent terminals. He later served as the Director of MIT Laboratory of Computer Science from 1974 to 2001.
A firm supporter of bringing “technology into our lives, and not vice versa,” under his guidance, the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science became one of the largest research labs at MIT.
According to the Google post, “Dertouzos worked to make LCS the North American home of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an alliance of companies promoting the Web’s evolution and interconnectivity. Dertouzos recruited Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, to run it.”
In Scientific American, a popular science magazine, Michael Dertouzos famously said, “We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. … It’s time to put the two back together.”
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