Bob Bemer, a computer pioneer who published warnings of the Y2K problem in the early 1970s and helped invent a widely used coding system, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 84. Bemer died ...

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

George Bauer, 83, staff announcer at WGN radio and television for nearly 40 years; June 16, in Evanston, of a stroke. Bob Bemer, 84, computer pioneer who helped develop the ASCII coding system and ...

Robert «Bob» Bemer, a computer pioneer who helped develop the ASCII coding system and the technology that led to the «escape» key on keyboards, died on Tuesday at the age of 84 after battling cancer, ...