From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dfevans@sekrit.eu (David Evans) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:02:31 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Interesting comment about /usr/share/calendar.computer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 10 Oct 2012, at 16:47, David Ryskalczyk wrote: > So I was digging around some time back, and noticed these lines in the > *BSD "Computer" calendar file: > > > 06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, > Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC > ... > Recently, I tried again and found this: > http://diamond.temple.edu/record=b1850797 > In short, the name in calendar.computer is misspelled, and the date is > wrong too! The correct year is 1953, at least according to that > record. (I haven't looked at the actual thesis yet.) > Whether this is indeed the "First advanced degree on computer related > topic" is something I'm not sure about — a cursory search didn't turn > up any others that predate this one, but I didn't search very far. > If 1953 is correct then Dave Wheeler's PhD predates it by about two years: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/misc/obituaries/wheeler