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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you don't already know how computers work, it may seem like an unapproachable subject. It's the kind of high-level science and math that ...

Robert W. "Bob" Bemer, 84, who helped invent the language used by most of the world's computers to translate text to numbers and who was the first scientist to warn of the Y2K problem, died of cancer ...

Editors' Note: This article has been updated since its original posting. Software and hardware engineers who have to deal with byte and bit order issues know the process is like walking a maze. Though ...