Peggie Rimmer

An Oxford physicist, Peggie Rimmer came to CERN in 1967. She programmed one of the first mini-computers used on-line, a PDP-8, and went on to develop front-end data acquisition and local area network systems for a quarter century. She was Tim Berners-Lee's supervisor in the Data Handling Division (DD) from 1984 to 1990.

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Minimising the muddle

Peggie Rimmer was Tim Berners-Lee’s hierarchical "leader" in CERN’s Data and Documents division when he invented the World Wide Web

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12 March, 2014
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12 March, 2014