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Charles P. Thacker

American computer scientist
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Erik Gregersen is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica, specializing in the physical sciences and technology. Before joining Britannica in 2007, he worked at the University of Chicago Press on the...
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Charles P. Thacker (born February 26, 1943, Pasadena, California, U.S.ā€”died June 12, 2017, Palo Alto, California) was an American winner of the 2009 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his ā€œpioneering design and realization of the first modern personal computer.ā€ Thacker received a bachelorā€™s degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967. He then worked at that university for Project Genie, one of the first time-sharing systems in...

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