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 design
