Robert William Bemer
(February 8, 1920 – June 22, 2004) a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Bemer is the inventor of the words "Cobol," and "CODASYL," six ASCII characters, and the concepts of registry and escape sequences in character codes.He was the member of the committee that design COMTRAN language and produced the specifications for COBOL language. He also invented the term and defined the nature of the "software factory."Bob invented an approach to Y2K (Year 2000) date conversion, to avoid anticipated problems when dates without centuries were compared in programs for which source code was not available. This involved detecting six and eight character operations at run time and checking their operands, adjusting the comparison so that low years in the new century did not appear to precede the last years of the twentieth century.
(February 8, 1920 – June 22, 2004) a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Bemer is the inventor of the words "Cobol," and "CODASYL," six ASCII characters, and the concepts of registry and escape sequences in character codes.He was the member of the committee that design COMTRAN language and produced the specifications for COBOL language. He also invented the term and defined the nature of the "software factory."Bob invented an approach to Y2K (Year 2000) date conversion, to avoid anticipated problems when dates without centuries were compared in programs for which source code was not available. This involved detecting six and eight character operations at run time and checking their operands, adjusting the comparison so that low years in the new century did not appear to precede the last years of the twentieth century.
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