Ian Sommerville (technician)
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Ian Sommerville (technician)
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Ian Sommerville was an electronics technician and computer programmer. He is primarily known through his association with William S. Burroughs's circle of Beat Generation figures, and lived at Paris's so-called "Beat Hotel" by 1960, when they were regulars there, becoming Burroughs's lover and "systems adviser". Sommerville was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Around 1960, he programmed a random-sequence generator that Brion Gysin used in his c
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British electronics technician and computer programmer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Sommerville_(technician)
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2009-02-08T21:08:51Z
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2024-09-01T20:24:14Z
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