W. Richard Stevens
W. Richard Stevens
William RichardStevenswas a Northern Rhodesia-born American author of computer science books, in particular books on UNIX and TCP/IP...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth5 May 1909
haven health lots next spent systems
The next 8 years were spent working in New Haven for Health Systems International, which was lots of fun, but that's another story.
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My first encounter with computers was in 1968 as a Freshman engineering student at the University of Michigan, taking a required Fortran IV class.
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It's too early in the game to tell you, but it's a serious possibility.
aerospace engineers found fun good laying thousands time
It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.
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This evening could have been better spent almost anywhere if you wanted to find your pulse rate.
bring burden commercial help proceeds small tax
If it proceeds as commercial development, I'd like to see it annexed. It could bring jobs, help the tax burden and bring us our own small airport.
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I headed back to Ann Arbor, still having enough contacts there to get my job back at the Computing Center, and liking the city a lot.
jobs school flying
In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
fields graduates programming
After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.
country jobs years
I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
years may evolution
We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.