[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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