Wanda ya kirkiri kalmar sirri ya mutu yana da shekaru 93

Wanda ya kirkiri kalmar sirri shine Fernando J Corbató. Kamar yadda yake tare da sauran majagaba da yawa na kwamfuta, muna koyon su wane ne lokacin da aka saki labarin mutuwarsu, gami da tarihinsa a kan Wikipedia yana da sauki sosai. Mutuwar ta faru ne a ranar 12 ga wannan watan saboda rikitarwa daga ciwon suga.

Corbató ya haɓaka ra'ayin amfani da kalmomin shiga yayin aiki a kan hanyoyin raba lokaci hakan zai ba mutane da yawa damar amfani da kwamfuta guda ɗaya cikin aminci a lokaci guda.

Shahararren masanin kimiyyar ya fara karatunsa a jami'ar California, Los Angeles, amma bayan shekara daya sai ya katse karatunsa saboda yakin duniya na biyu. A cikin shekaru uku masu zuwa, ya yi aiki da gyaran tsarin komputa na Sojojin Ruwa na Amurka.

Bayan yakin, Corbató ya shiga kwasa-kwasan Kimiyyar lissafi a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), inda sauke karatu a 1950 kuma ya sami digirin digirgir a shekarar 1956. Nan da nan bayan ya kammala, ya shiga Cibiyar Kwamfuta ta MIT, inda zai zama farfesa a shekarar 1965. A wannan cibiyar, ya cusa ayyukan koyarwarsa tare da bincike har sai ya yi ritaya.

Corbató ya kasance a matsayin farfesa a MIT har sai ya yi ritaya, inda ya yi aiki a imuhimmanci IT bincike wanda za'a iya gane shi bisa ƙa'ida.

Baya ga ayyukan da aka ambata a cikin samar da tsarin zamani, Corbató ana ɗaukarsa mai alhakin ci gaban tsarin aiki na Multics. Multics sun ƙaddamar da ra'ayoyi da yawa waɗanda ake amfani da su a yau a cikin tsarin aiki na zamani kuma ya haifar da haɓaka tsarin aiki na Unix, wanda har yanzu ana amfani da shi sosai. Unix kuma shine tushen wahayi zuwa ga Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, da Chrome OS.

A cikin 1990, Corbató ya sami lambar yabo ta Turing don aikinsa na haɓaka babban manufa, babban sikelin, rabon lokaci da tsarin kwamfuta mai raba albarkatu. Daga cikin sakamakon wannan gagarumin bincike a farkon shekarun 1960 akwai tunanin amfani da kalmomin shiga.

Koyaya, baya soyayya da abubuwan da ya kirkira. A cikin 2014 Corbató ya haskaka hakan kalmomin shiga sun zama wani nau'in "mafarki mai ban tsoro". A lokacin ya yi iƙirarin cewa a cikin yanayin ƙasa na yau da kullum hanyar tsaro da ba ta dace ba ta zama ba za a iya sarrafa ta ba.