Fernando Corbató, a Turing Award recipient whose work on time-sharing systems paved the way for the PC, as well as the computer password, dies at 93 (Katie Hafner/New York Times)

Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Fernando Corbató, a Turing Award recipient whose work on time-sharing systems paved the way for the PC, as well as the computer password, dies at 93  —  Fernando Corbató, whose work on computer time-sharing in the 1960s helped pave the way for the personal computer …