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Surprisingly, the article on Fano's inequality on Scholarpedia is written by Fano! http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Fano's_inequality http://www.scholarpedi

• vanderZwan 10y ago
  > Robert Mario Fano (2008), Scholarpedia, 3(10):6648. So he was 90 years old when he wrote that. That is really cool, especially in the context of this section of the obituary: > In many respects, Fano was one of the world’s first open-source advocates. He frequently described computing as a public utility that, like water or electricity, should be accessible to all. His writings in the 1960s often discussed computing’s place in society, and predated today’s debates about the ethical implications of technology. > “One must consider the security of a system that may hold in its mass memory detailed information on individuals and organizations,” he wrote in a 1966 paper he co-authored with Corbató. “How will access to the utility be controlled? Who will regulate its use?”