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    of time-sharing operating systems. Corbató was born on July 1, 1926, in Oakland, California, to Hermenegildo Corbató, a Spanish literature professor from...
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  • was first developed by Fernando J. Corbató (1962). For this accomplishment, the Association for Computing Machinery awarded Corbató the Turing Award. Whereas...
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    The early Project MAC community included Fano, Minsky, Licklider, Fernando J. Corbató, and a community of computer programmers and enthusiasts among others...
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    System, was initiated by John McCarthy at MIT writing a memo in 1959. Fernando J. Corbató led the development of the system, a prototype of which had been...
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    November 1961, Fernando J. Corbató demonstrated at MIT what was called the Experimental Time-Sharing System. On May 3, 1962, F. J. Corbató, M. M. Daggett...
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    048 numbers of 16 binary digits each. Corbató, F. J. (14 November 1990), An Interview With Fernando J. Corbató (pdf transcript of vocal recording), retrieved...
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    was coined by the programmers at MIT's Project MAC. According to Fernando J. Corbató, who worked on Project MAC in 1963, his team was the first to use...
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    Heralds of Resource Sharing, a 30-minute documentary film featuring Fernando J. Corbató, J. C. R. Licklider, Lawrence G. Roberts, Robert Kahn, Frank Heart...
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    on October 29, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2024. T. Van Vleck. "Fernando J ("Corby") Corbato - A.M. Turing Award Laureate". Association for Computing Machinery...
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    Oral history interview with Fernando J. Corbató at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Corbató discusses computer science...
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