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Farewell to John Warnock, an internet pioneer whose invention actually made the world better (techxplore.com)

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Farewell to John Warnock, an internet pioneer whose invention actually made the world better::In June 1969, John E. Warnock achieved a milestone of sorts at the University of Utah by producing the shortest Ph.D. dissertation in the university's history.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tldr He wrote a paper that outlined a portable document format: the PDF.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Prett incredible. Imagine having that on your resume

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And then submitting that resume as a 10pt Arial Word doc

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

He co-invented PDF in '91. His PhD thesis, referenced in the summary, is a solution to the hidden line problem in computer graphics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe it was a short dissertation, but the standard grew huge, it's 986 pages: https://www.iso.org/standard/75839.html

This is the reason there are few pdf editors, and their features vary greatly, it's a huge task to impement that standard from scratch.