Life is full of moments that make you wonder how it could be any better. Tom Keane has a long list of moments where he asked how it could be any better. As the software developer states, from finding out his wife was pregnant to raising their family to get hit by a car on Christmas day, this post is about those dreaded moments and what came next—only one thing: Microsoft.
At the age of 13, when the young cloud services specialist was working at an ice cream store for pocket money, my dad introduced me to computer programming (I still remember the first day I arrived at work- I had only been coding for 4 hours before my dad showed up!). Tom Keane is glad to share his experiences.
His Achievements
After studying at Princeton, my dad worked at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), where he and a team of other researchers pioneered the concept of object-oriented programming, which led to the release of C++. Tom Keane explains that C++ allows you to create reusable code and objects, reducing the amount of written code.
After that, he worked at Bell Labs in New Jersey, where he helped develop an object-oriented version of Unix called Unix System V Release 4. In addition, Tom Keane informs, while working at Bell Labs, my dad invented a fundamental technology called Object Linking and Embedding (OLE).
Tom Keane explains that this is mainly responsible for so much success in the software industry today. OLE allows software objects to interact with another computer program and then, in turn, to share information with other things. An example is Word (which was bought by Microsoft) which inserts an Excel spreadsheet into a Word document. Tom Keane finally adds that you can also think of it as a very early form of “Cloud Computing.”