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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 21 2019, @09:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the met-his-endian dept.

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RIP Danny Cohen: The computer scientist who gave world endianness meets his end aged 81

The computer scientist who created the first visual flight simulator, gave us the compsci concept of endianness and whose pioneering work blazed a trail for modern VOIP services has died at the age of 81.

Dr Danny Cohen worked on one of the first ever computer-based flight simulations in the early 1970s, an era where most think of computing as something that was still reliant on punch cards instead of advanced graphics processing and display technologies.

In addition, Cohen gave us the compsci notion of endianness and developed some of the first clustered computing deployments – paving the way for modern cloud technology.

The flight simulator created by the Israeli-born mathematician is very basic by modern standards but wouldn't be bested by generally available software until the advent of home gaming consoles more than a decade later.

What made his flight sim achievements even more remarkable was that it wasn't until after he developed the simulator that Cohen learned to fly in real life, as he told Wired in a 2012 interview.

Cohen also carried out some early work on what he described as "digital voice teleconferencing" in 1978, as this Youtube video published from an account seemingly in Cohen's name sets out.

[...] The Internet Hall of Fame inducted him into their ranks in 2012, recognising him as a pioneer.

[...] Danny Cohen, computer scientist. 9 December 1937 – 12 August 2019.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @05:13PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @05:13PM (#883230)

    has died at the age of 81

    2019 - 81 = 1938

    Israeli-born mathematician

    However, Israel was declared state in 1948.

    Conclusion: Said scientist aged thusly could be born in Palestine, but surely not in Israel.

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  • (Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Thursday August 22 2019, @04:42AM

    by Coward, Anonymous (7017) on Thursday August 22 2019, @04:42AM (#883470) Journal

    In Hebrew, the Palestine of 1938 is called Palestine (Land of Israel). Would you say that a Palestinian who was born in the pre-1988 West Bank is not Palestinian-born? The State of Palestine was declared in that year.