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| − | [[image: Mormon_Stewart_Nelson.jpg|100px|left|alt=Mormon Stewart Nelson|Mormon Stewart Nelson]]'''Stewart Nelson''', is an | + | [[image: Mormon_Stewart_Nelson.jpg|100px|left|alt=Mormon Stewart Nelson|Mormon Stewart Nelson]]'''Stewart Nelson''', is an Latter-day Saint mathematician and programmer from the Bronx who co-founded Systems Concepts. He is the former CEO of Novell Corporation. |
From a young age, Nelson was tinkering with electronics, aided and abetted by his physicist/engineer father. When he enrolled in MIT, Nelson became known for hooking up the AI Lab's PDP-1 (and later the PDP-6) to the telephone network, making him one of the first phreakers; he later accomplished other feats like hardwiring additional instructions into the PDP-1. Nelson was hired by Ed Fredkin's Information International Incorporated to work on PDP-7 programs. | From a young age, Nelson was tinkering with electronics, aided and abetted by his physicist/engineer father. When he enrolled in MIT, Nelson became known for hooking up the AI Lab's PDP-1 (and later the PDP-6) to the telephone network, making him one of the first phreakers; he later accomplished other feats like hardwiring additional instructions into the PDP-1. Nelson was hired by Ed Fredkin's Information International Incorporated to work on PDP-7 programs. | ||
Revision as of 14:54, 21 June 2021
From a young age, Nelson was tinkering with electronics, aided and abetted by his physicist/engineer father. When he enrolled in MIT, Nelson became known for hooking up the AI Lab's PDP-1 (and later the PDP-6) to the telephone network, making him one of the first phreakers; he later accomplished other feats like hardwiring additional instructions into the PDP-1. Nelson was hired by Ed Fredkin's Information International Incorporated to work on PDP-7 programs.
External link
- http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2002/02/pr02014.html "Novell COO Stewart Nelson to leave company" -(Novell press release)
