Heh, funny to see this still floating around. This is the first draft of a paper I wrote with a partner for the "breadth and history of computer science" (EECS

Heh, funny to see this still floating around. This is the first draft of a paper I wrote with a partner for the "breadth and history of computer science" (EECS 101) class at Northwestern University my freshman year. At the time I found myself having just finished submitting a handful of patches to the FFMpeg project the year before I entered college, just finished a major patch for QEMU that winter, and using tinycc in a dumb project for using distcc to quickly find compile errors in huge C projects. When my professor/advisor put up this assignment and asked us to chose a notable character in the field I of course jumped at the chance to get to know the man as well as I had gotten to know his work. To be honest, I'm a tad ashamed at some of the grammar and spelling mistakes in that draft. As you can see from the citation style and LaTeX footer, it was suggested by my advisor that I submit a draft to one of the general ACM journals for publication, but I never got around to it, so I never fully proofed the paper either.