Evelyn Berezin And Her Word Processor Brought The Computer Age Closer To Everybody

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
12/04/2021 3 min Temporada 3 Episodio 517

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Today is the birthday of Evelyn Berezin, whose inventions include the first computer-based word processor, the first computerized airline reservations system, and so much more that so many of us use regularly today. Plus: artist Nadia Gonegaï has made the Portrait Urn, a pretty special way to remember someone special. 
The woman who invented the word processor and online flight booking system has died (Quartz)
Evelyn Berezin, Computer Scientist Behind Groundbreaking Word Processor, Dies At 93 (NPR)
Portrait Urn (Book of Joe)

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