Andries van Dam

Andries "Andy" van Dam (born 8 December 1938, Groningen) is a Dutch-born American pioneering professor of computer science and former Vice-President for Research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Together with Ted Nelson he contributed to the first hypertext system, HES in the late 1960s. He co-authored Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice along with...

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