Robert W. Bemer

Robert W. Bemer was an influential computer scientist known as the "father of ASCII" because he played a key role in developing the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), which is a fundamental system for representing text in computers. He worked at IBM and contributed to many important computing standards and innovations, including programming languages and data processing techniques. Bemer's work helped create a common language for computers to communicate and process information, laying the groundwork for modern computing and digital communication.