The greatest value
of a picture is
when it forces us
to notice what
we never expected
John W. Tukey
(1915 – 2000)
Tukey was an pre-computer home-schooled data geek. Check out his bio here:
The following is from Wiki:
“Tukey coined many statistical terms that have become part of common usage, but the two most famous coinages attributed to him were related to computer science.
While working with John von Neumann on early computer designs, Tukey introduced the word “bit” as a contraction of “binary digit”. The term “bit” was first used in an article by Claude Shannon in 1948.
The term “software“, which Paul Niquette claims he coined in 1953, was first used in print by Tukey in a 1958 article in American Mathematical Monthly, and thus some attribute the term to him; incorrectly, according to Niquette’s claim.
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