| LC control no. | n 88645814 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bemer, R. W. (Robert William) |
| Variant(s) | Bemer, Robert William Bemer, Bob |
| Found in | Computers and crises, c1971 t.p. (R.W. Bemer) LC data base, 6-1-88 (hdg.: Bemer, R. W.; usage: R.W. Bemer) NUCMC data from Computer History Museum for His Papers, 1943-2002 (Robert "Bob" William Bemer was born February 8, 1920 in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Known among his colleagues and contemporaries as "the father of ASCII," he was a member of the American Standards Association committee that defined the "ASCII" character-encoding standard for electronic telecommunications and computing. Bemer was responsible for six characters in ASCII, most notably the escape and backslash characters. He later played a key role in the development of the COBOL programming language, which drew on aspects of Bemer's COMTRAN programming language developed at IBM. Bemer is credited with the first public identification of the Y2K problem, publishing in 1971 his concern that the standard representation of the year in calendar dates within computer programs by the last two digits rather than the full four digits would cause serious errors in confusing the year 2000 with the year 1900. Bemer passed away on June 22, 2004.) |
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