Fernando J. Corbató

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Works

0

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

GB

Active from

1965-07-31

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,822x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,753x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,936x

4. Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine

   · 2020 · cited 14,062x

5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,989x

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Quotes

• “Clearly, one can obfuscate one's ideas with a compiler language but it's harder. To some extent one is talking about what one wants rather than how one wants to do it. The trouble with machine code, of course, is that when you look at a random section of machine code you don't know what properties of the instructions the programmer really wanted to exploit.”
• “Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!”
• “The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules.”
• “Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.”
• “The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product.”
• “To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second.”

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Key facts

Born

Fernando José Corbató , ( 1926-07-01 ) July 1, 1926, Oakland, California , U.S.

Died

July 12, 2019 (2019-07-12) (aged 93), Newburyport, Massachusetts , U.S.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles , California Institute of Technology ( BS ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MS , PhD )

Known for

Multics

Awards

Turing Award (1990) , Computer History Museum Fellow (2012)

Fields

Computer scientist

Institutions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis

A calculation of the energy bands of the graphite crystal by means of the tight-binding method (1956)

Doctoral advisor

John C. Slater

Doctoral students

Jerome H. Saltzer

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