[TUHS] 3 minute clip from Al Aho about awk's original development

[Brian Stuart via TUHS]

Very cool.  I've come across Lehmer because of a very clever parallel
prime number sieve he did on the ENIAC.  He's also responsible for
one of my favorite quotes, "The ENIAC was a wonderfully parallel
machine until von Neumann spoiled it."

BLS

On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM Martin Schröder via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
>
> Am So., 11. Jan. 2026 um 07:55 Uhr schrieb Arnold Robbins via TUHS
> <tuhs at tuhs.org>:
> > If you don't mind my asking, what were you doing before Research?
> >
> > In truth, the question is deeper. We have videos from Ken with his
> > history, Doug's oral history, and BWK's memoirs, but I (at least) know
> > very little about you. So the question is more like, where did you
> > get your education, how did you end up at Bell Labs, what did you
> > do there before moving to Research?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Weinberger
>
> "Weinberger was an undergraduate at Swarthmore College, graduating in
> 1964. He received his PhD in mathematics with a specialization in
> number theory in 1969 from the University of California, Berkeley
> under Derrick Henry Lehmer for his thesis Proof of a Conjecture of
> Gauss on Class Number Two. After holding a position in the Department
> of Mathematics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he
> continued his work in analytic number theory, he moved to AT&T Bell
> Labs."
>
> Best
>     Martin