{"id":4831,"date":"2011-08-08T09:52:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T14:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2011-08-08T09:52:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T14:52:42","slug":"repostdid-my-brother-invent-e-mail-with-tom-van-vleck-part-five-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/08\/repostdid-my-brother-invent-e-mail-with-tom-van-vleck-part-five-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part Five) &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Origins of Computer Science!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ERROL MORRIS: My brother was getting a degree in electrical engineering because there was no degree in computer science.<br \/>\nROBERT FANO: I know. I started it.<br \/>\nERROL MORRIS: You started it?<br \/>\nMIT Museum<br \/>\nRobert Fano<br \/>\nROBERT FANO: That\u2019s right. When I started Project MAC, I wanted at the same time to build up computer science as part of the electrical engineering department. It was a double mission. First, that\u2019s where the money was. Second, that\u2019s where the future was. And eventually, the higher-ups understood that computer science was going to stay. And over the years, the curriculum in computer science kept developing. So much so that in 1971, after I stopped being director of Project MAC, I was asked to be the first associate department head for computer science in the electrical engineering department. A little later, a new department head changed the name of the department from electrical engineering to electrical engineering and computer science. And shortly thereafter, Project Mac became LCS, the Laboratory for Computer Science.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/23\/did-my-brother-invent-e-mail-with-tom-van-vleck-part-five\/\">Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part Five) &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Origins of Computer Science! ERROL MORRIS: My brother was getting a degree in electrical engineering because there was no degree in computer science. ROBERT FANO: I know. I started it. ERROL MORRIS: You started it? MIT Museum Robert Fano ROBERT FANO: That\u2019s right. When I started Project MAC, I wanted at the same time to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/08\/repostdid-my-brother-invent-e-mail-with-tom-van-vleck-part-five-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part Five) &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,41,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-history","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}