Bob Bemer was born in August 1920 in Sault Stel, and later entered the Albion College. In 1949, he began programming career, once in his own responsibility, IBM, UNIVAC and Honeywell. During the 50-10s, he made a contribution to the development of the ASCII code, and he wrote 10 ASCII code, including the ESC key and the antilar key.
He has designed the first computerized three-dimensional dynamic image, which is a pioneer of modern computer animation; he has participated in the development of COBOL commercial programming language standards, and it is also the earliest (1971) to make Y2K (Millennium insects) warning people. From 1956 to 1962, Bremen served for IBM, and witnessed the number of troubles brought by the company's nine different character sets.
"They all talk about computers should communicate with each other, but they are not willing to give up their own standards." Bimmel recalls, "So I will talk to them, you don't want to blame each other and don't care about others. To know, the computer is in use. The symbol system is not 9 kinds, and it is more than 60 ways to indicate characters. This is the real 'Babel Tower'! "- According to the Bible, Adam and his children are the same. Language, when they intend to make a tower straight through the sky, God will make their language mess, so that they can't communicate with each other. This tower was named "Babel Tower", "Babel" is the meaning of "chaos". Bimer believes that the computer is artificial, it has not been able to break free from the shadow of "Babel Tower"; however, it is because the computer is artificial, people must help it go out of "Babel Tower".
So, in May 1960, Bimer made a preliminary design and submitted a recommendation to formulate general purpose computer code to the US National Standard Institute (ANSI). According to this recommendation, ANSI organized a committee to develop unified standards. Because of the committees to compete for their own dedicated characters as a standard, the interests of the interests two years. Bimer is difficult to persuade: "This work is very trivial, but in the end, my chairman and the chairman of the committee said, it is it." Bremen was pleased to find that this final result is initially The plan is very similar. They named ASCII for this code, ie, "Information Exchange with US Standard Code".
The ASCII code gives the standard number to other characters such as English letters, numbers, punctuation symbols, and control code. For example, the uppercase "A" is represented by the decimal number 65, and the ASCII code of the uppercase "B" is a decimal number "66", etc. This simplest text format is a common language that may communicate between computers. Until today, all characters we use in emails are ASCII code, the HTML file characters on the web page are also ASCII characters. It is one of several basic computer technologies that still maintain vitality. Bimmer thus obtains the title of "ASCII's father", and even his car license is also crowned in the symbol of "Texas ASCII".
On June 22, 2004, Dallas was died in the home of Binnden Lake, Bosen, Dallas, 84 years old.
