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Bemer is probably the earliest proponent of the ''[[software factory]]'' concept. He mentioned it in his 1968 paper "The economics of program production".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bobbemer.com/FACTORY.HTM |title=The Software Factory Principle |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010406041743/http://www.bobbemer.com/FACTORY.HTM |archive-date=2001-04-06}}</ref>
Other notable contributions to computing include the first publication of the [[time-sharing]] concept in 1957 and the first attempts to prepare for the [[Year 2000 problem]] in publications as early as 1971.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=J.A.N. |last2=Rosin |first2=Robert F |date=1992 |title=Time-Sharing at MIT |url=https://archive.org/details/time-sharing-at-mit |journal=IEEE Annuals of the History of Computing |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=16 |access-date=October 3, 2022}}</ref> Acting in an advisory capacity, Bob and Honeywell employees Eric Clamons and Richard Keys developed the ''[[Text Executive Programming Language]]'' (TEX).<ref>{{cite journal |date=August 1978 |title=Introduction to TEX |page=144 |journal=Interface Age}}</ref>
In the late 1990s, as a retiree, Bob invented an approach to Year 2000 (Y2K) date conversion, to avoid anticipated problems when dates without centuries were compared in programs for which [[source code]] was unavailable. This involved detecting six and eight character operations at [[Runtime (program lifecycle phase)|runtime]] and checking their operands, adjusting the comparison so that low years in the new century did not appear to precede the last years of the twentieth century.
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