Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 22, 2023
As Ed tells it, however, he was the only one who didn’t drop out of the training—and over the course of a year it taught him “much of what was then known about computer programming and computer hardware design”. Shortly after he set up III, Ed persuaded Ben Gurley (designer of the PDP-1) to leave DEC and join him at III.
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