Alexander Ference: Dec. 22, 1927 — July 16, 2014.
By Mackenzie Carpenter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | |
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It wasn'?t exactly comfortable.
"The room was big and freezing cold," Ms. Olson says, "but that'?s because in the late 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, computers took up a lot of space and my dad was one of the earliest of what I guess today would be called an '?IT'? guy. He really was a pioneer in information science."
He'?d majored in psychology at the
With the growth of group health insurance plans after
And while he never became a household name like
He still found time to be a caring father to his children, his daughter said, recalling the pride she felt after that visit to the large, cold computer room.
On a recent visit, Ms. Olson, of
Besides his daughter,
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and
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