Eelco van Asperen is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 computer scientist

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

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On the first webpages created by Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, , also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web...

, Van Asperen was credited as having contributed to the "WWW project". Van Asperen "ported the line-mode browser

Line-mode browser

The Line Mode Browser is the second web browser ever created.The browser was the first demonstrated to be portable to several different operating systems....

 [to] the PC under PC-NFS; developed a curses

Curses (programming library)

curses is a terminal control library for Unix-like systems, enabling the construction of text user interface applications.The name is a pun on the term “cursor optimization”. It is a library of functions that manage an application's display on character-cell terminals .- Overview :The curses API...

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Van Asperen is currently an associate professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, at the School of Economics. He has published several articles in scientific journals, mostly in the field of computer simulation

Computer simulation

A computer simulation, a computer model, or a computational model is a computer program, or network of computers, that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system...

 and logistics

Logistics

Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...

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External links

• Archive of "People involved in the WorldWideWeb project"
• Personal webpage at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam