- \n
- Invented ASCII\n
- Invented the ESCape sequence (and ESC key).\n
- Invented (well, helped invent) COBOL.\n
- Put the backslash into ASCII..\n
- Helped create the 8-bit-per-byte standard.\n
- Was one of the first folks to warn (back in 1971!) of the Y2K problem.<\/ul>\n
Wow<\/a>. He received the IEEE Computer Pioneer Award <\/a>in 2002.<\/p>\n
![\"bobbemer.jpg\"](\"\/blog\/images\/bobbemer.jpg\" "\\"Bob")
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Bob Bemer has passed away. Who’s Bob Bemer? Or, rather, what did he do? Hell, what didn’t he do in founding modern computing? 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