Roberto Busa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roberto Busa

Italian Jesuit priest and scholar

Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1913

Place of Birth: Asiago, Veneto, Italy

Date of Death: 09-Aug-2011

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician, Catholic priest, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Roberto Busa (November 28, 1913 – August 9, 2011) was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the pioneers in the usage of computers for linguistic and literary analysis.
He was the author of the Index Thomisticus, a complete lemmatization of the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas and of a few related authors.