- Born
- Died
- Mark D. Weiser was born on July 23, 1952 in Harvey, Illinois, USA. He died on April 27, 1999 in Palo Alto, California, USA.
- Chief technologist at Xerox PARC and drummer for Severe Tire Damage, the first band to perform live on the internet. Widely considered to be the father of ubiquitous computing.
- The Mark D. Weiser Excellence in Computing Scholarship Fund at the University of California, Berkeley, is awarded to undergraduate computer science students in Weiser's honor.
- Descendant of Pennsylvania Dutch pioneer Conrad Weiser.
- The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
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