Nicola Pellow | |
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Alma mater | Leicester Polytechnic |
Known for |
Line Mode Browser MacWWW |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Information technology |
Institutions | CERN |
Nicola Pellow is an English mathematician and information scientist who was one of the nineteen members of the WWW Project at CERN working with Tim Berners-Lee. [1] She joined the project in November 1990, while an undergraduate maths student enrolled on a sandwich course at Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University). [1] [2] Pellow recalled having little experience with programming languages, "... apart from using a bit of Pascal and FORTRAN as part of my degree course." [2]
Almost immediately after Berners-Lee completed the WorldWideWeb web browser for the NeXT platform [3] Pellow was tasked with creating a browser using her recently acquired skills in the C programming language. [2] The outcome was that she wrote the first generic Line Mode Browser [4] [5] [6] that could run on non-NeXT systems. [1] [5] [7] The WWW team began to improve on her work, creating several experimental versions. [8] Pellow was involved in porting the browser to different types of computers. [9]
She left CERN at the end of August 1991 but returned after graduating in 1992 to work with Robert Cailliau on MacWWW, [10] [11] the first web browser for the classic Mac OS. [9] [12]
nicola pellow.
Nicola Pellow | |
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Alma mater | Leicester Polytechnic |
Known for |
Line Mode Browser MacWWW |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Information technology |
Institutions | CERN |
Nicola Pellow is an English mathematician and information scientist who was one of the nineteen members of the WWW Project at CERN working with Tim Berners-Lee. [1] She joined the project in November 1990, while an undergraduate maths student enrolled on a sandwich course at Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University). [1] [2] Pellow recalled having little experience with programming languages, "... apart from using a bit of Pascal and FORTRAN as part of my degree course." [2]
Almost immediately after Berners-Lee completed the WorldWideWeb web browser for the NeXT platform [3] Pellow was tasked with creating a browser using her recently acquired skills in the C programming language. [2] The outcome was that she wrote the first generic Line Mode Browser [4] [5] [6] that could run on non-NeXT systems. [1] [5] [7] The WWW team began to improve on her work, creating several experimental versions. [8] Pellow was involved in porting the browser to different types of computers. [9]
She left CERN at the end of August 1991 but returned after graduating in 1992 to work with Robert Cailliau on MacWWW, [10] [11] the first web browser for the classic Mac OS. [9] [12]
nicola pellow.