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WILF HEY
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Wilf Hey earned
two degrees in Canada: a BA in Science/Philosophy
and a Mus,Bach. He achieved a prize from the American
Mathematical Association, and went into computer
programming right at the start of his career. He
figured in the development of RPG -- "decision
tree sorter" that graduated into a high level
language, and has been closely linked with early
development of barcodes and computerised
voices. He has been responsible for design of utilities
and support of language compilers for a large
international computer manufacturer. In
the 80s he moved into computer journalism and has
written "Wilf's Workshop" for PC
Plus ever since. He has specialised in programming
issues and software security. For its first decade
he was Deputy Editor and principal writer
for SC magazine, and has been senior writer/analyst
with Computerwire. He also writes regularly for
Vision, an international magazine of religion
and philosophy. He and his wife of 38 years currently
work as principal staff for a family of
three cats in Bath. |
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