{"id":271,"date":"2014-06-17T07:21:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T07:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.maclawran.ca\/?p=271"},"modified":"2014-06-17T07:47:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T07:47:47","slug":"a-tiny-bit-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.maclawran.ca\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"A tiny bit of history…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been incredibly lucky to encounter some truly amazing people.\u00a0 On about my 15th anniversary of working with UNIX, I decided to send a little thank you note to the guys who invented it – Brian W Kerrighan<\/a>, Dennis Ritchie<\/a>, and Ken Thompson<\/a> – since they’d essentially provided me with the ability to make a living and have a great time doing it.\u00a0 What was remarkable, is that I heard back from all of them promptly, and that they were all pretty awesome.<\/p>\n

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And as some of you know, I helped get my great-grandfather Thomas E Murray<\/a> who invented just about everything from the powerplant to the light socket, inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame<\/a>.\u00a0 My wife, Jessica Argyle, wrote about the whole thing here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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But I also got to meet three legends…<\/p>\n

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Sean MacGuire and Robert Khan, co-inventor of TCP\/IP<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sean and Martin Hellman, co-inventor of Public Key Cryptography with Whitfield Diffie<\/p><\/div>\n

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Whitfield Diffie<\/p><\/div>\n

And we got seated with the head of the USPTO as well as Lloyd Conover, the inventor of tetracycline who lamented that “even I need a prescription to get it now…”<\/p>\n

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Lloyd Conover, inventor of tetracyline<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, here’s my quick chat with Neil Conan from NPR:<\/p>\n