Anthony Oettinger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Anthony Oettinger

Date of Birth: 29-Mar-1929

Place of Birth: Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany

Profession: computer scientist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Anthony "Tony" Gervin Oettinger (born 29 March 1929 in Nuremberg, Germany) is a linguist and computer scientist best known for his work on information resources policy.
Oettinger coined the term “compunications” in the late 1970s to describe the combination of computer and telecommunications technologies that would take place as digital technologies replaced analog forms.
In 1973 he co-founded, with John LeGates, the Program on Information Resources Policy at Harvard University.
He served as a consultant to the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the National Security Council and NASA’s Apollo moon-landing program.
From 1966 to 1968 he was president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
He was recognized for his work in the intelligence community with the naming of the Anthony G.
Oettinger School of Science and Technology Intelligence of the National Intelligence University.
He is Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Information Resources Policy, Emeritus, at Harvard.