Spotlight: Programmer Paul E. Blackâs Path Into Bug Extermination
Get to know NIST’s bug killer, versed in multiple languages of the digital world and ready to tackle programming’s pests. In 1971, Paul E. Black took a class that changed his life. As a teenager growing up in the slide rule’s heyday (before electronic calculators), he happened upon a subject few people studied at the time: computer programming. He loved the idea that you could put a snapshot of your thoughts into a machine and get it to do things — and he’s been into it ever since. Paul spent several years of his early career at a company where he wrote programs that let engineers designhttp://news.poseidon-us.com/S7YLHD