User:Dennette/sandbox
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| Dennette Arthur Harrod, Jr. | |
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 Dennette with a fellow Mensan, Mensa International Vice-president Isaac Asimov (Rochester, NY, 1981) |
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| Pen name | The Wiz |
| Occupation | Software imagineer |
| Nationality |  United States |
Dennette Arthur Harrod, Jr. (b. 1950-02-17, Washington, D.C.) is a single-name Internet phenomena,[1] and a pioneering software imagineer. In 1980, he published an article about adding a hardware interrupt to trap 64 user-defined opcodes from the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor's 151 unimplemented instructions.[2] As Project Manager for Version 5.0 of IGES in 1990,[3] he was responsible for making it the first ANSI standard that was published electronically using itself, i.e., the first self-documented digital standard for electronic publishing.[4]
In 1995, following a stroke, he built his first HTTP Web server on a home-brew 133 MHz 486-based PC using Linux with a 28.8K dedicated acoustic dial-up modem connection, and hosted Dennette's HomeBoy Page, one of the Internet's oldest and longest running blogs.[5]
Since 1983, the self-styled Imagineer in Residence has independently marketed his software skills under the business name of WiZ WORX, which has had a Web presence since 1995. Although he has not attended a function in over a decade, he is a Life Member of Mensa and was interviewed in Ebony in 1984 (at the age of 34) as one of the few African American members of the International High IQ Society.[6] He is also a card-carrying member of the ACLU.
[edit] References
- ^ Just Google his first name. :-)
- ^ Harrod, Dennette (October 1980). "6502 Gets Microprogrammable Instructions". BYTE 5 (10): p. 282. McGraw Hill. ISSN 00360-5280.
- ^ The successor to ASME Y14.26M-1989, commonly known as IGES, Version 4.0.
- ^ Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES), Version 5.0, NISTIR 4412, NIST (1990). IGES files were used for all of the technical illustrations. They were converted to HPGL using IGESDRAW™ from WiZ WORX, then merged with the Postscript text generated by LaTeX, and finally printed with the text and figures on the same page for use as camera-ready copy for publication by NIST, instead of pasting 125 CAD generated figures (in a dozen different formats) onto 600 pages with white-space left for the figures, which is how all previous versions had been done. IGES, Version 5.1 was published as a set of replacement pages printed in a different color. IGES, Version 5.2 was a complete reprinting with corrected pages and figure numbers. The LaTeX master copy of IGES, Version 5.3 was generated on Dennette's home-brew MS-DOS machine.
- ^ I am, like, Totally Clueless how to reference this assertion of "one of the Internet's oldest and longest running blogs". :-)
- ^ "MENSA: The High IQ Society" (October 1984). Ebony XXXIX (12): p. 134. Johnson Publishing Company. ISSN 0012-9011.
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