Charles was my Big Brother, so I consider myself extremely biased in writing any kind of bio for him. However, I feel justified in the things I am saying, because they came from his friends and colleagues, not just from me.
Charles built a working computer in 1964 as a high school science fair project. The input device was a rotary telephone dial. He followed that by graduating from MIT with a B.S., M.S., E.E., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was a fantastic system designer and programmer, excelling at complex system design (that from competitors of the company he worked for). He was also a fantastic teacher, mentor, and friend. He could talk to anyone on that person's level, whether that person was a 2-year-old, or another Ph.D. Every conversation with him ended up being a learning experience - although people generally didn't realize that until later when they used the information they had learned and stopped and asked themselves where they had learned it. More than one colleague/friend said that he was the one person who could always be counted on to show up to help when he said he would - or that sometimes, he just showed up after they mentioned that they were doing something that he knew would be easier to accomplish with more hands - whether that was baking cookies with the kids, cleaning out gutters, or building an addition on a house. He loved to "walk up" mountains - he never considered himself a "mountain-climber" - and, because he didn't have a car, he would walk for miles from the end of public transportation to get to a hiking site - then "walk up" the mountain with the group.
But most of all, he was always there when you needed him.
Charles built a working computer in 1964 as a high school science fair project. The input device was a rotary telephone dial. He followed that by graduating from MIT with a B.S., M.S., E.E., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was a fantastic system designer and programmer, excelling at complex system design (that from competitors of the company he worked for). He was also a fantastic teacher, mentor, and friend. He could talk to anyone on that person's level, whether that person was a 2-year-old, or another Ph.D. Every conversation with him ended up being a learning experience - although people generally didn't realize that until later when they used the information they had learned and stopped and asked themselves where they had learned it. More than one colleague/friend said that he was the one person who could always be counted on to show up to help when he said he would - or that sometimes, he just showed up after they mentioned that they were doing something that he knew would be easier to accomplish with more hands - whether that was baking cookies with the kids, cleaning out gutters, or building an addition on a house. He loved to "walk up" mountains - he never considered himself a "mountain-climber" - and, because he didn't have a car, he would walk for miles from the end of public transportation to get to a hiking site - then "walk up" the mountain with the group.
But most of all, he was always there when you needed him.
Charles was my Big Brother, so I consider myself extremely biased in writing any kind of bio for him. However, I feel justified in the things I am saying, because they came from his friends and colleagues, not just from me.
Charles built a working computer in 1964 as a high school science fair project. The input device was a rotary telephone dial. He followed that by graduating from MIT with a B.S., M.S., E.E., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was a fantastic system designer and programmer, excelling at complex system design (that from competitors of the company he worked for). He was also a fantastic teacher, mentor, and friend. He could talk to anyone on that person's level, whether that person was a 2-year-old, or another Ph.D. Every conversation with him ended up being a learning experience - although people generally didn't realize that until later when they used the information they had learned and stopped and asked themselves where they had learned it. More than one colleague/friend said that he was the one person who could always be counted on to show up to help when he said he would - or that sometimes, he just showed up after they mentioned that they were doing something that he knew would be easier to accomplish with more hands - whether that was baking cookies with the kids, cleaning out gutters, or building an addition on a house. He loved to "walk up" mountains - he never considered himself a "mountain-climber" - and, because he didn't have a car, he would walk for miles from the end of public transportation to get to a hiking site - then "walk up" the mountain with the group.
But most of all, he was always there when you needed him.
Charles built a working computer in 1964 as a high school science fair project. The input device was a rotary telephone dial. He followed that by graduating from MIT with a B.S., M.S., E.E., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was a fantastic system designer and programmer, excelling at complex system design (that from competitors of the company he worked for). He was also a fantastic teacher, mentor, and friend. He could talk to anyone on that person's level, whether that person was a 2-year-old, or another Ph.D. Every conversation with him ended up being a learning experience - although people generally didn't realize that until later when they used the information they had learned and stopped and asked themselves where they had learned it. More than one colleague/friend said that he was the one person who could always be counted on to show up to help when he said he would - or that sometimes, he just showed up after they mentioned that they were doing something that he knew would be easier to accomplish with more hands - whether that was baking cookies with the kids, cleaning out gutters, or building an addition on a house. He loved to "walk up" mountains - he never considered himself a "mountain-climber" - and, because he didn't have a car, he would walk for miles from the end of public transportation to get to a hiking site - then "walk up" the mountain with the group.
But most of all, he was always there when you needed him.
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