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| 19 | Beman Dawes is a software developer from Virginia in the United States and the |
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| 20 | founder of boost.org.</p> |
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| 21 | <p>He is the author of the StreetQuick® geographic atlas library used by digital |
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| 22 | map publishers to help people get really, really, lost.</p> |
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| 23 | <p>He wrote his first computer program 40 years ago, and does not mourn the |
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| 24 | passing of <a href="http://www.mta.ca/~amiller/ibm650/ibm650.htm">bi-quinary</a> |
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| 25 | arithmetic.</p> |
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| 26 | <p>Beman has been a voting member of the ANSI/ISO C++ Standards Committee since |
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| 27 | 1992, and chaired the Library Working Group for five years.</p> |
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| 28 | <p>He enjoys travel, sailing, hiking, and biking. He is married, and he and his |
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| 29 | wife have three cats.</p> |
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| 30 | <p>Email: <a href="mailto:bdawes@acm.org">bdawes@acm.org</a></p> |
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