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	Robert Fano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Mario Fano (born 1917) is professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Fano was born in Torino (Turin), Italy, where he lived and studied engineering (as an undergraduate at the School of Engineering of Torino) until 1939, when he emigrated to the United States.
		Fano is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Fano (324 words)

	Ugo Fano, Atomic Physicist, 1912-2001
		Fano dedicated much of his work to achieving a better understanding of the dynamics of atoms and molecules and the way they interact with light, electrons and each other.
		Fano developed a novel theoretical description for hydrogen molecule spectra based on his analysis of another scientist’s pioneering work for atoms, said Anthony Starace, a professor of physics at the University of Nebraska.
		Fano came to the University of Chicago in 1966 as a Professor in Physics and the James Franck Institute.
	www-news.uchicago.edu /releases/01/010213.fano.shtml (982 words)

	Robert Fano -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fano is known principally for his work on ((computer science) a statistical theory dealing with the limits and efficiency of information processing) information theory, inventing (with (United States electrical engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (1916-2001)) Claude Shannon) (additional info and facts about Shannon-Fano coding) Shannon-Fano coding.
		In the early 1960s, he was involved in the development of (additional info and facts about time-sharing) time-sharing computers, and served as director of MIT's (additional info and facts about Project MAC) Project MAC from its founding in 1963 until 1968.
		Fano is a member of the (An honorary American society of scientists created by President Lincoln during the American Civil War) National Academy of Sciences and the (additional info and facts about National Academy of Engineering) National Academy of Engineering.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_fano.htm (326 words)

	In memoriam: Ugo Fano
		University of Chicago Professor Emeritus Ugo Fano, whose pioneering contributions to the theory of atomic and radiation physics helped lead to the development of the gas laser and the use of radiation in medical diagnosis and therapy, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on Tuesday,
		A prime example of Fano's ability to analyze experimental data was the paper he wrote about the spectra -- the distinctive electromagnetic radiation appearing at particular wavelengths -- of the hydrogen molecule measured by Gerhard Herzberg, who would later receive the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
		Fano's memory may be made to the University of Chicago, Ugo Fano Fund (for the care and nurturing of graduate students), c/o Mary Heagley, Division of the Physical Sciences, The University of Chicago, 5747 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637.
	physics.uchicago.edu /fano.html (984 words)

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		Fano, remembering his excitement in learning how to program during this course, recalled, "I wrote a program that worked." (28) Gordon Brown, according to Fano, understood that the computer was going to be very important and encouraged his senior faculty to become familiar with it.
		Fano was one of the faculty members appointed to the committee.
		Fano was surprised that Stratton asked him which building he would use for the project, encouraging him to begin to implement his proposal.
	www.columbia.edu /~rh120/ch106.x06 (5264 words)

	obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Dr. Ugo Fano
		Fano and Fermi additionally discovered a way to slow and harness the energy of neutrons by use of a light element moderator, work which Fano took further while Fermi focused on atomic division and fission energy.
		Fano's work, however, which did not deal with fission energy, was much more benign, and he became considered a forerunner if not a founder of modern theoretical atomic physics.
		Fano's work on the development of gas lasers and directed radiation proved invaluable to medical sciences, and are still widely employed in cancer treatment.
	obits.com /fanougo.html (607 words)

	Encyclopedia: Electrical engineering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One year later, in 1906, Robert von Lieben and Lee De Forest independently developed the amplifier tube, called the triode.
		The invention of the transistor in 1947 by William B. Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain opened the door for more compact devices and led to the development of the integrated circuit in 1959 by Jack Kilby and independently in 1961 by Robert Noyce.
		Robert Noyce Robert Noyce (December 12, 1927 â€“ June 3, 1990), nicknamed the Mayor of Silicon Valley, co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Electrical-engineering (10126 words)

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		Robert Fano worked at RLE (the Research Lab for Electronics) after doing his Ph.D. at MIT in June 1947.
		Fano, remembering his excitement in taking their course recalled, "I wrote a program that worked," while taking the course.(23) Gordon Brown, Fano explained, understood that the computer was going to be very important and encouraged his senior faculty to become familiar with it.
		Robert Fano's dream of aiding remote users is still an elusive goal which Usenet begins to make possible, but public libraries or other public access sites like universities may make it possible to solve the problem he identified.
	massis.lcs.mit.edu /archives/reports/pioneer.vision.behind.net (8211 words)

	Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet by Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fano, remembering his excitement in learning how to program during this course, recalled, "I wrote a program that worked" [28].
		Gordon Brown, according to Fano, understood that the computer was going to be very important and encouraged his senior faculty to become familiar with it.
		Fano explained that the importance of developing time-sharing was not just in developing something technical.
	firstmonday.org /issues/issue3_8/chapter6 (7071 words)

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		Fano, Robert M. Interview by Arthur L. Norberg.
		Roberts, Lawrence G. "The Evolution of Packet Switching." In Proceedings of the IEEE.
		Roberts, Lawrence G. "The ARPANET and Computer Networks." In A History of Personal Workstations.
	www.columbia.edu /~rh120/ch106.xbi (1401 words)

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		Fernando Corbato and Robert Fano wrote, "The time-sharing computer system can unite a group of investigators in a cooperative search for the so- lution to a common problem, or it can serve as a community pool of knowledge and skill on which anyone can draw according to his needs.
		Roberts explains that Licklider's work (and that of the IPTO's directors after him) educated people who were to become the leaders in the computer industry in general.
		Roberts con- tinues: "So it was clear that that was a big impact on the universities and therefore, in the industry.
	www.ais.org /~jrh/acn/ACN6-2.txt (20532 words)

	Scientific American, September 1991
		For the term paper, Huffman's professor, Robert M. Fano, had assigned what at first appeared to be a simple problem.
		His insight was that by assigning the probabilities of the longest codes first and then proceeding along the branches of the tree toward the root, he could arrive at an optimal solution every time.
		Fano and Shannon had tried to work the problem in the opposite direction, from the root to the leaves, a less efficient solution.
	www.huffmancoding.com /david/scientific.html (1990 words)

	CSAIL Biography
		Professor Fano chaired the Centennial Study Committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science whose report, "Lifelong Cooperative Education," was published in October, 1982.
		During World War II, Professor Fano was on the staff of the MIT Radiation Laboratory, working on microwave components and filters.
		Professor Fano is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1978) and of the National Academy of Engineering (1973) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1958) and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1954).
	www.csail.mit.edu /biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=14 (817 words)

	Golf : the first open on the Continent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		His grand-uncle, Robert Dunlop, professional at Prestwick went to Denmark and designed the Fano Golf Course, opened in 1901.
		A link to the Fano Golf Club which confirms that the course was designed "by a Scotsman named Dunlop".
		Christoph Meister confirms that an open was played in Fano in 1901 and adds that also a ladies event was organised.
	www.golfika.com /edi03_e.html (301 words)

	IPTO - Information Processing Techniques Office
		Roberts and Thomas Merrill then implemented the first packet exchange by dial-up telephone connection, between a TX-2 computer at MIT and a Q-32 computer in California.
		Taylor was impressed by Roberts work, and asked him to come on board to led the effort.
		When Roberts resisted, Taylor asked Hertzfeld to get the Director of Lincoln Labs to pressure Roberts to reconsider, which eventually caused Roberts to relent and join the IPTO as Chief Scientist in December, 1966.
	www.livinginternet.com /i/ii_ipto.htm (669 words)

	Professor Emeritus Robert Fano receives an Honorary Degree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Professor Emeritus Robert Fano receives an Honorary Degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino.
		Professor Fano was born in Torino, Italy, and did most of his undergraduate work at the School of Engineering of Torino before coming to the United States in 1939.
		Robert M. Fano was Ford Professor of Engineering, in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until his retirement in June, 1984.
	www.csail.mit.edu /events/news/2005/fano.html (139 words)

	Essay: My Career in Computer Architecture
		I had the privilege of participating in the work of the LRCSG, which led to Project MAC and the Multics computer and operating system, under the organizational leadership of Prof.
		Robert Fano and the technical guidance of Prof.
		This would allow segments containing program modules and units of structured data to be shared by many users without the need for making copies.
	www.csg.lcs.mit.edu /Users/dennis/essay.htm (1690 words)

	MIT Entrepreneurship Center - Technology Leadership
		Robert Jenison Van de Graaff invents the Van de Graaff Generator used in high-energy physics.
		Jay W. Forrester '45 and Robert R. Everett '43 of the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory begin research that leads to the development of the Whirlwind Computer.
		Time-sharing computer systems are developed by Robert M. Fano '41, Fernando J. Corbato '56, and others in MIT's Project MAC (Machine-Aided Cognition and Multi-Access Computer).
	entrepreneurship.mit.edu /technology_leadership.php (735 words)

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		Responding to questions, Fano warned that difficulties could arise in the interface with the outside world,- 'where MIT cannot aIways-control the situa- tion." He concluded.with the remark that the committee "did not run into serious intentional violations of privacy," but ob- served a great deal of insensi- tivity to the issue.
		The evolution of a School Council and an education and research development group, he ex- plained, is one of the ways in which the School's patterns of self-direction are changing.
		Dean Robert Alberty of the School of -Science introduced the motion to establish a special interdisciplinary program in his school.
	www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_091/TECH_V091_S0339_P006.txt (812 words)

	mprove: thesis: Friedewald References
		Chapman, Robert L., J. Kennedy, A. Newell, W. Biel (1959).
		Cringely, Robert X. Wie die Jungs vom Silicon Valley die Milliarden scheffeln, die Konkurrenz bekriegen und trotzdem keine Frau bekommen.
		Everett, Robert R., C. Zraket, H. Benington (1957).
	www.mprove.de /diplom/fried99refs.html (6745 words)

	Alumni
		Byron Roberts (BA LSA ’85), the College’s director of Media and Marketing, and James Fausone (BS AOS, BS ENV ’76) conducted a focus group that netted constructive ideas for enhancing the College’s alumni website.
		Roberts also announced the development of two new electronic publications (see related article on page 28), directed exclusively at alumni of the College.
		Robert Reid (BSE CH ’63) has retired after a 35-year career in engineering, 31 of those years spent in academia at four universities.
	www.engin.umich.edu /alumni/engineer/01FW/alumni.html (6104 words)

	CRN \| MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Researchers at MIT had been working on time-sharing since 1957, but it was Corbat and others in 1961 who developed a prototype of the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), which in the beginning supported around 20 users at a time.
		After a meeting with Licklider, Fano drafted a proposal, which read in part, "The broad, long-term objective of the program is the evolutionary development of a computer system easily and independently accessible to a large number of people and truly flexible and responsive to individual needs."
		Even though Fano essentially started a new research lab at MIT, he dubbed it a "project" to solve a problem of local politics.
	www.crn.com /sections/special/hof/hof.asp?ArticleID=11170 (1419 words)

	howard rheingold's \| tools for thought
		By the fall of 1947, prior to its 1948 publication, his book on cybernetics was making the rounds of government and academic experts in manuscript form.
		Robert Fano, a professor of electrical engineering who eventually became head of the electrical engineering department at MIT and administrative leader of MIT's pioneering computer project known as MAC, witnessed some strange behavior on Wiener's part around that time, behavior that Fano later had cause to remember when Claude Shannon published his work.
		Fano was working on his doctoral thesis in electrical engineering.
	www.rheingold.com /texts/tft/5.html (5638 words)

	Bibliography \| Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computing Research
		Roberts, Lawrence G. Homogenous Matrix Representation and Manipulation of N-Dimensional Constructs, MS-1505.
		Roberts, Lawrence G. "Multiple Computer Networks and Intercomputer Communication," Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles.
		Sutherland, Ivan, Robert F. Sproull, and Robert A. Schumacker.
	www.nap.edu /readingroom/books/far/biblio.html (4770 words)

	Historical Notes: History [of data compression]
		Modern work on data compression began in the late 1940s with the development of information theory.
		In 1949 Claude Shannon and Robert Fano devised a systematic way to assign codewords based on probabilities of blocks.
		An optimal method for doing this was then found by David Huffman in 1951.
	www.wolframscience.com /reference/notes/1069b (340 words)

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		The theme of whether the future development of the Internet will build on the past principles, continued to be a concern of those in the audience during subsequent sessions.
		Roberts spoke about how people from the scientific and educational communities felt disenfranchised by the growing commercialization of the Internet.
		The question was raised as to whether the Internet would be the victim of the tragedy of the commons.
	umcc.ais.org /~jrh/acn/text/ACN7-2.txt (18640 words)

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		His recently published book "Computer Power and Human Reason," explores, among other interesting issues, what can, and what ought to be delegated to machines.
		Professor Robert Fano, an expert in information theory, is also the founding Director of the Laboratory.
		Professor Fano is also keenly interested in education and spearheaded, in the late 1960's, the creation of an undergraduate program in Computer Science and Engineering within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
	www.medg.lcs.mit.edu /people/psz/LCS-75/social.html (280 words)

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