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 | | Nick Metropolis, dean of computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory, who was responsible for the MANIC, a versionmof John von Neumann's IAS machine, died over the weekend of October 17-18, 1999. |
 | | John Napier, the eighth laird of Merchiston, the developer of logarithms, the "bones" which bear his name, a (binary) chessboard computer, and the promptuary. |
 | | A special list of "Multicians" was provided to me by Tom Van Vleck who maintains a special page with respect to the "Multics" project: |
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