<p>The New York Times article </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/obituaries/20cnd-backus.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/obituaries/20cnd-backus.html</a> </p>
<p>tells of a student who didn’t like school at first, but who helped thousands of other people apply computers to their problem-solving at work.</p>