Fernando Corbato (yeah, I've never heard of him either) passed away recently at the age of 93. Fernando was instrumental in modernizing computing. You see, back in the day, even before I started getting interested in computers, people didn't have a machine on their desks, much less in their pockets. They probably didn't have a computer anywhere in the office. If a company had one at all, it was down in the basement manned by some white shirted guy with a black skinny tie, glasses, and a pocket protector.