RAndy Pausch. He died on my birthday (july 25, 2008) Professor at carnegie Mellon. Age 47 Death: Uncurable Pancreatic Cancer. Author of "LAST LECTURE"
Scott E. Fahlman
Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman is reported to be the first person to use the horizontal smiley face in a computer message. In 1982, he used the smiley face in a forum discussion regarding the limits of online humor.
It is not known when the computer graphics smiley face started out or who created it, but a sideways version was formed as a colon followed by a hyphen and end parenthesis symbol. This form of the smiley face was "created" by a professor at Carnegie Mellon University by the name of Scott E. Fahlman in September of 1982.
The use of emoticons can be traced back to the 19th century, and they were commonly used in casual and humorous writing. Digital forms of emoticons on the Internet were included in a proposal by Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a message on 19 September 1982
The first emoticon was a smiley ( :-) ) by Scott Fahlman of Carnegie University on September 19, 1982.
University of California at Santa Cruz, 1974-1978, assistant professor; Stanford University, 1979-1982, associate professor; Silicon Graphics, 1982-1994, chairman; Netscape Communications Corp., 1994-1999, chairman; Healtheon/WebMD, 1996-2000, chairman
Professor Power was created in 1982.
Silicon Graphics (SGI), was cofounded by Clark and six graduate students at Stanford University in 1982, where Clark was employed as an associate professor.
Bharathiar University was created in 1982.
Bharathidasan University was created in 1982.
University of Molise was created in 1982.
University of Verona was created in 1982.