William Wulf was at the forefront of what was then perceived as a radical idea: anybody with a modem connecting to everybody else with a modem. He later tried to predict the ethical and economic consequences of consumer-tracking algorithms and AI.
He had already spent nearly two decades as a tech pioneer while the industry advanced from giant mainframes fed by index cards to desktop PCs. Now came this radical idea: anybody with a modem connecting to everybody else with a modem., then a Democratic senator from Tennessee, who for years had been talking up the potential promise of the “data superhighway.” Dr. Wulf asked if Gore would spearhead efforts to drop the government gatekeepers from the digital domain.
the internet. Dr. Wulf, meanwhile, as head of the National Science Foundation’s computer and engineering directorate, oversaw changes to consolidate the data-sharing technology, first developed by the Pentagon, and open it up to civilian users.Yet even the computer visionary Dr. Wulf, who died March 10 in Charlottesville at age 83, could not conceive of what was ahead at the time. “I don’t know where I was headed,” he said in a 2015Dr.
He advocated for more diversity as well: seeking to expand the voice of women and other groups traditionally underrepresented in technology fields. “We could reduce the population of the Earth by perhaps 90 percent or we may engineer technology to sustain something like our current lifestyle,” he a gathering at Washington’s Cosmos Club in 2005. “What is worrisome is that as long as the technological culture does not communicate, which it has made little attempt to do, we are really not making progress.”He could have a playful side, too.
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