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	Bob Bemer
		Bob Bemer born in 1920 is married to Bettie, a Texas oil woman, The license on her Mercedes is "ESC KEY".
		Bob Bemer became a programmer in early 1949 and did not stop working as one since then.
		Bemer to thank for the backslash character and for the escape sequence, which allows a computer to break from one language and enter another.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/bemer_bob.htm (896 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Computer Pioneer Bob Bemer, 84 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robert W. "Bob" Bemer, 84, who helped invent the language used by most of the world's computers to translate text to numbers and who was the first scientist to warn of the Y2K problem, died of cancer June 22 at his home on Possum Kingdom Lake in Texas.
		Bemer had first published a warning in 1971 about the problems that would arise from using two digits instead of four to represent years in computer code.
		Bemer did not cash in on the financial bonanza of the computer revolution, his family said.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A4138-2004Jun24?language=printer (910 words)

	The Business Life Digest - Bob Bemer, 84; Helped Code Computer Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bob Bemer, one of the computer industry's greats, died of cancer on June 22 at his home in Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas.
		Bemer was also on the team of developers who created the COBOL programming language, the second-oldest programming language and one that is used by many corporations today.
		Bemer gained some notoriety in the computer world for what some people call his self-imposed moniker as the "Father of ASCII." As one of many people on the team crafting the character set for standardization, the moniker fell upon him mainly for his work on influencing people around the world to put ASCII in operation.
	lnx.macorig.com /bld/content/view/22/44 (488 words)

	RIP Bob Bemer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The guy who did, Bob Bemer, just passed away yesterday at the age of 84 at his home on Possum King Lake, Texas.
		Bob was part of the team under Adm. Grace Hopper that invented (and many say he named) COBOL.
		Bob, your contributions were many and key to the evolution of computing.
	www.hammerland.net /node/224 (218 words)

	Orcmid's Lair: Computer Pioneer Bob Bemer
		I know Bob was there in 1962, because I remember him talking to my wife, Bobbi, at an employee party that he initiated to have all of us become better known to each other.
		With regard to managing people, Bob didn't believe in burning out developers and he thought there was a lot of life to be had outside of the office.
		Bob was a solid ACM booster and had been the Standards Editor for a time.
	nfocentrale.net /orcmid/blog/2004/06/computer-pioneer-bob-bemer.asp (1042 words)

	USATODAY.com - Computer pioneer Bob Bemer dies at 84 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bemer, 84, died Tuesday evening at his home along Possum Kingdom Lake, said his stepson, Glen Teeler.
		Bemer was born Feb. 8, 1920, in Sault Ste.
		Bemer and his wife, Bettie, moved to Possum Kingdom Lake in 1998, about 120 miles west of Dallas, working as a consultant for the state of Texas and others, Teeler said.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2004-06-23-bemer_x.htm (460 words)

	Y2K: Computer glitch came as no surprise
		Bemer realized that if the problem existed in historical research, it could become a crisis in all sorts of applications at the turn of the century.
		Bemer doesn't blame the COBOL programmers of four and five decades ago for the Y2K problem.
		Bemer had the first published warning of the potential of the Y2K crisis in the early 1970's.
	www.insidenaples.com /special/y2k/d158897a.htm (1912 words)

	Bob Bemer, computer pioneer; 84 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Bob Bemer, a computer pioneer who published warnings of the Y2K problem in the early 1970s and helped invent a widely used coding system, has died after a battle with cancer.
		Bemer died Tuesday at his home along Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, about 120 miles west of Dallas, said his stepson, Glen Teeler.
		Bemer began his programming career in 1949, working at companies including RAND Corp., IBM and Honeywell.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040625/news_1m25bemer.html (209 words)

	How Genealogy Helped Solve the Year 2000 Problem - in 1958!
		Bob Bemer also invented the "Escape" key found on every computer keyboard, the backslash character, and is the "father" of ASCII - but those are other stories.
		Bemer became further convinced that the 4-digit date was "the right thing to do" as insurance companies began to computerize the life expectancy tables and individual records for their policy holders born in the 19th century.
		Bob Bemer thought it was done at the Phoenix-based data processing center run by the General Electric (GE) Computer Department.
	www.oz.net /~markhow/writing/bemer.htm (1945 words)

	Programming pioneer Bob Bemer dies at 84 \| The Register
		Bob Bemer - the man who helped bring ASCII, the ESCape and backslash keys, and Y2K warnings to the world - died this week at his home on Possum Kingdom Lake in Texas.
		Bemer also laid claim to the creation of COBOL, the ESC key, the backslash key and the 8-bit per byte standard.
		Bemer was born on Feb. 8, 1920 in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2004/06/24/bemer_dead_at84 (400 words)

	Wired News: Move Over, BT: He Invented Links
		Bemer, 82, isn't just taking a political stance against the recent legal filing by British Telecom that claims the company owns a patent on hyperlink technology.
		But Bemer, who describes himself as a "computer software consultant, futurist and raconteur," doesn't intend to trump BT's claims in order to establish his own -– he just wants to point out the perils of the patent system.
		Bemer started programming in 1949 and came up with the notion of the "escape sequence" while working as IBM's chief of programming standards.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,50398,00.html (755 words)

	ISRC - Bob Bemer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bob Bemer is well known for meeting the world's needs for variant character sets and other symbols, via ASCII, ASCII-alternate sets, and escape sequences.
		Bemer was the first to describe commercial timesharing publicly, which you now see as the Worldwide Web.
		Bemer is called the Grandfather of COBOL and the Father of ASCII.
	www.unt.edu /isrc/Faculty/FacultyFellows/bemer.htm (511 words)

	Bob Bemer - Wikipedia
		Bob Bemer studierte Ingenieurwissenschaften und machte einen Abschluss als Flugzeugingenieur.
		Nach seiner Tätigkeit bei Lockheed 1952 bis 1957, wo er zur mathematischen Analyse von Tragflächen und Strömungsprofilen forschte, fand Bemer eine Anstellung bei IBM.
		Berühmt wurde Bemer als ein Verursacher des Jahr-2000-Problems: Um damals knappen Speicherplatz zu sparen, führte Bemer 1959 die zweistellige Jahreszahl in die Programmiersprache COBOL ein.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Bemer (230 words)

	life - listed chronologically: RIP Bob Bemer
		The creator of ASCII, Bob Bemer, has died at the age of 78.
		Bob Bemer developed the Ascii coding system to standardise the way computers represent letters, numbers, punctuation marks and some control codes.
		He also introduced the backslash and escape key to the world of computers and was one of the first to warn about the dangers of the millennium bug.
	www.ezoons.com /2004/06/25/rip_bob_bemer.html (115 words)

	Bob Bemer, father of ASCII, dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bemer was instrumental in some of the major changes in the history of computing, happily donning the mantle of "father of ASCII", for example.
		Then IBM's director of programming standards, Bemer spearheaded the American Standards Institute committee which came up with the ASCII communications code, which is still the most widely used in IT.
		Bemer's professional energy was reflected in his private life.
	www.microscope.co.uk /Article131864.htm (176 words)

	Carthik Sharma » Bob Bemer is to blame.
		An unsuspecting user left a comment on a WordPress FAQ entry, and he mailed me expressing desperation at the mysterious disappearance of the backslash from both the post and the comment.
		Bob Bemer is the man to blame for the extra work the WordPress devs have been putting in lately, especially Ryan Boren (who has been systematically working towards eliminating this problem.)
		To get to the point, Bob Bemer added the backslash to ASCII to be able to represent the logical symbols for logical AND and OR in ALGOL.
	blog.carthik.net /vault/2004/06/19/bob-bemer-is-to-blame (510 words)

	BOB BEMER STORY #2: Prof. Kappelman's Analysis - Gary North's Y2K Links and Forums - Mirror- No_Silver_Bullet
		Bob Bemer has an idea for a Year 2000 software fix.
		Here is an analysis of Bemer's silver bullet by Leon Kappelman, who teaches business computer science at the University of North Texas.
		There are a couple articles in our (the SIM working group's) new book (one by Peter de Jager and one by Bob Cohen of ITAA) about why the notion of a y2k silver bullet is a pipe dream of those who don't really understand the y2k problem.
	members.tripod.com /KPY2K/359.htm (278 words)

	BOB BEMER STORY #3: Where Is The Product? - Gary North's Y2K Links and Forums - Mirror- No_Silver_Bullet
		The media have given a great deal of coverage to Bob Bemer, a 77-year-old retired programmer who claims to have developed a tool to reduce the cost of y2k repairs.
		"But even if Bemer is 100% right about this and can deliver the product to implement it, and say it works with no manual intervention at all and is 40 times faster, it still only addresses code remediation which is only about 10% to 15% of the work.
		Of Special Interest:Bob Bemer, 77, best knows as the Father of ASCII text, "jumped" out of retirement to save the world from the Year 2000 Millenium Bug.
	members.tripod.com /KPY2K/1001.htm (396 words)

	Computer pioneer Bob Bemer dies \| Tech News on ZDNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bob Bemer, a computer pioneer who helped develop the ASCII coding system and the technology that led to the "escape" key, has died at the age of 84 after battling cancer, his caregiver said Thursday.
		Bemer died on Tuesday at his home near Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, 120 miles west of Dallas.
		Bemer is also credited with writing the computer sequence that allows for the "escape" command.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-3513_22-5247678.html (393 words)

	Bob Bemer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		'''Bob Bemer''' ('''Robert William Bemer''' February 8, 1920-June 22,2004) was a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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	bob-bemer.kiwiki.homeip.net (402 words)

	Bob Bemer dies - The Vintage Computer Forums
		POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE, Texas (AP) -- Bob Bemer, a computer pioneer who published warnings of the Y2K problem in the early 1970s and helped invent a widely used coding system, has died after a battle with cancer.
		Bemer died Tuesday at his home along Possum Kingdom Lake, about 120 miles west of Dallas, said his stepson, Glen Peeler.
		Bemer played an major role in how the world's computers operate.
	www.vintage-computer.com /vcforum/showthread.php?t=1003 (369 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Key computer coding creator dies
		In the early 1970s Mr Bemer was among the first to warn about the impending millennium bug.
		According to Glen Teeler, Mr Bemer's stepson, he was a prolific computer user until only a month ago.
		Mr Bemer died at his home in Possum Kingdom Lake, almost 200 kilometres west of Dallas.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/3838845.stm (357 words)

	Blog of Death: Bob Bemer
		Working at IBM Corp. in the late 1950s, Robert W. "Bob" Bemer helped develop the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), which translates computer binary code into a language consisting of readable numbers and letters.
		Bemer also coined the term "COBOL," developed the technology behind the Escape (ESC) key, which rests in the top left corner of most computer keyboards, and created the coding concept behind hyperlinks.
		In two separate articles, Bemer theorized the potential problems that could arise from using two digits to represent years in computer code.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001049.html (289 words)

	TechNetcast 980403 - Y2K with Bob Bemer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		TIME is our topic this week as the father of ASCII and the escape sequence discusses Y2K and reminisces about the days when terminal emulators were the hot client technology and computers came in iron casings.
		Bob started working with computers when the term portable applied to machines weighing less than a ton and that could be transported in small trucks.
		I understand there's a woman that's taken over much of the stuff and she has a good reputation and I hope--I wish her a lot of luck in moving some of that high bun (phonetic) stuff away.
	technetcast.ddj.com /hz-show-980410.html (5936 words)

	[NTLUG:Discuss] Bob Bemer: The Aftermath of Y2K
		The DFW Unix Users Group invites you to a talk by Bob Bemer on "The Aftermath of Y2K: What Happened and What Can We Expect".
		Bemer's talk will be at 7 PM on Thursday, January 6, 19100 at Silicon Graphics in Dallas.
		Bemer: Bob Bemer, becoming a programmer in early 1949, has worked at RAND Corporation, Marquardt, Lockheed, IBM, Univac, Bull GE, General Electric, and Honeywell.
	www.ntlug.org /pipermail/discuss/Week-of-Mon-20000103/001935.html (459 words)

	Computer pioneer Bob Bemer dies - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com
		Family photo / AP Bob Bemer is shown in this undated family photo.
		POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE, Texas - Bob Bemer, a computer pioneer who published warnings of the Y2K problem in the early 1970s and helped invent a widely used coding system, has died after a battle with cancer.
		Marie, Mich., Bemer began his programming career in 1949, working at companies including RAND Corp., IBM, and Honeywell.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5280665 (485 words)

	Website Templates Blog: Who was Bob Bemer?
		Bob Bemer was the greatest IT man of all time who received little recognition and monetary compensation for what we know today as ASCII code.
		I should also mention that Bob Bemer predicted the Y2K date problem as far back as the early 1970s.
		Bemer passed away from cancer on June 25.
	www.basictemplates.com /blog/2004/06/who-was-bob-bemer_29.shtml (291 words)

	Venusberg \| That's not your heart, it's a piece of helicopter casing
		After the death of Bob Bemer, the inventor of the escape key, which must be the most cruelly mocking button on the keyboard (escape?
		Incredibly, Bemer was present at pretty much every major innovation in cmputing ever.
		My wife reported that, after settling in, Learson put a hand on her knee and asked "Is there anything I can do for you, honey?" Marion, one of the brashest, replied "Yes, give my husband a raise".
	www.venusberg.org /2004/06/after-death-of-bob-bemer-inventor-of.html (245 words)

	How Bob Bemer Invented the ESCAPE Sequence and Key
		I well remember nailing Bob once for an explanation of the 'Escape Character' concept, which was new to me when Bob pushed it through his group.
		The energy I had then astounded even me, and I was indeed young enough to be impatient with people that could not see the benefit of many of my ideas.
		Bemer's "escape" code and registration of alternative meanings.
	mercury.ccil.org /~remlaps/www.bobbemer.com/ESCAPE.HTM (1970 words)

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