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David J. Farber

American computer scientist

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born: 1934
died: 2026
age at death: 91
known for: computer scientist, information scientist, university teacher

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David Jack Farber was an American professor of computer science, noted for his major contributions to programming languages and computer networking and was a distinguished professor and co-director of Cyber Civilization Research Center at Keio University in Japan. Farber was widely known as a mentor who maintained a global list of contacts in the high technology field, often connecting people with problems that needed solving.

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