A look back at ORHS grad Dick Sites' beginnings, and the world of computers
A look back at ORHS grad Dick Sites’ beginnings, and the world of computers Benita Albert and D. Ray Smith/Historically Speaking Benita Albert brings us another story of an Oak Ridge Schools graduate. Thanks to Mike Coveyou, who suggested to Benita that Dick Sites would be a good subject for her to consider. You will enjoy this two-part series *** Dick (R.L.) Sites wrote his first computer program at age 10, a project which produced a Pascal’s Triangle display, a triangular array of the coefficients in successive binomial expansions. This topic from algebra was most certainly ahead of t...
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