[GTALUG] Kelly Gotlieb

phiscock at ee.ryerson.ca phiscock at ee.ryerson.ca
Sat Nov 5 09:54:24 EDT 2016


Thanks for posting this, Hugh. Very interesting.

Peter

> C. C. "Kelly" Gotlieb died on October 16 at age 95.  Kelly was one of
> the zeroth generation of Canadian Computing.  Probably the last I
> knew.
>
> (I don't remember ever calling him "Kelly" to his face.  I never felt
> that I was a peer of his.  At one point he and I had neigbouring
> offices in a backwater of the Sanford Flemming Building so I got to
> have a few unhurried chats with him.)
>
> <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/kelly-gotlieb-was-the-father-of-canadian-computing/article32672798/>
>
> Nit picking the Globe article:
>
> - there was no reasonable way to send a gigabyte of data by teletype in
>   the 1950s.  The typical speed would be 10 characters per second (110
>   baud) or less.  A gigabyte would take three years solid.  And
>   nothing could easily store it.
>
> - I don't think that Kelly had long talks with Turing.  I asked Kelly
>   about Turing and my recollection is that Turing was not very
>   conversational with Kelly.  Of course my recollection is not 100%
>   reliable.
>
> - His PhD thesis my well still be classified -- Kelly liked to tell
>   that story.  But I don't think it was about "cybernetics".  It came
>   out of his work with the team that studied artillery shells with the
>   new and secret "proximity fuse".  This allied invention was perhaps as
>   secret and important as the atomic bomb in World War II.
> 	<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze>
> 	<https://www.npa.org/public/interviews/careers_interview_331.cfm>
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