In June 1969, John E. Warnock achieved a milestone of sorts at the University of Utah by producing the shortest Ph.D. dissertation in the university's history.

Farewell to John Warnock, an internet pioneer whose invention actually made the world better::In June 1969, John E. Warnock achieved a milestone of sorts at the University of Utah by producing the shortest Ph.D. dissertation in the university’s history.

  • infeeeeeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Maybe it was a short dissertation, but the standard grew huge, it’s 986 pages: https://www.iso.org/standard/75839.html

    This is the reason there are few pdf editors, and their features vary greatly, it’s a huge task to impement that standard from scratch.