Michael dertouzos biography
Michael Leonidas Dertouzos was a professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..
Chairman, DARPA Advisory Committee on Information Processing, - Member, Data General Scientific Board, - present.- (b.) - (d.)
Bio/Description
He was instrumental in defining the World Wide Web Consortium and bringing it to MIT. He was a firm supporter of the GNU Project, Richard Stallman, and the FSF, and their continued presence at MIT. In 1968, he co-founded Computek, Inc., a manufacturer of graphics and intelligent terminals with Marvin C.
Lewis and Dr. Huber Graham. He was a graduate of Athens College and attended the University of Arkansas on a Fulbright Scholarship. He received his Ph.D.
Following a Ph.D.
from M.I.T. in 1964 and joined the M.I.T. faculty. His colleagues remember him as a visionary who championed the development of technology with an eye towards human utility. ?He set an incredible perce