Michael Dertouzos
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| Michael Leonidas Dertouzos Μιχαήλ Λεωνίδας Δερτούζος |
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| Born | November 5, 1936 Athens, Greece[1] |
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| Died | August 27, 2001[1] Boston, USA[1] |
| Occupation | Academic |
Michael Leonidas Dertouzos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Λεωνίδας Δερτούζος) (November 5, 1936 - August 27, 2001) was a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) from 1974 to 2001.
During Dertouzos's term, LCS innovated in a variety of areas, including RSA encryption, the spreadsheet, the NuBus, the X Window System, and the Internet. Dertouzos was instrumental in defining the World Wide Web Consortium and bringing it to MIT. He was a firm supporter of the GNU Project, Richard Stallman, and the FSF, and their continued presence at MIT.
In 1968, he founded Computek, Inc., a manufacturer of graphics and intelligent terminals.
Dertouzos was a graduate of Athens College and attended the University of Arkansas on a Fulbright Scholarship. He received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1964 and joined the M.I.T. faculty. He was buried in Athens, at the First Cemetery[1].
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We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. ... It's time to put the two back together.
—Michael Dertouzos, Scientific American, July 1997
[edit] External links
- Oral history interview with Michael L. Dertouzos. Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
- Michael Dertouzos: In Memoriam, from the MIT LCS page.
- Biography on KurzweilAI.net
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- Dertouzos, The Unfinished Revolution: Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do For Us, 2001, ISBN 0-06-662067-8.
- Dertouzos, What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives, 1997, ISBN 0-06-251479-2.
- K. Warwick "Scrubbing the future clean", Review of 'What will be' by Michael Dertouzos, New Scientist, p. 44, 9th August 1997.
- "Communications, Computers and Networks", in Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks, September, 1991
- (co-author), Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge, 1989, ISBN 0-262-04100-6.
