What is Wesley A. Clark?
{{for|the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] general and [[2004 United States presidential election|2004 presidential candidate]]|Wesley Clark}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Wesley Allison Clark | image = Wesley A Clark 2002.jpg | image_size = | caption =by Dick Lyon, 2002 | birth_date = {{birth date |1927|4|10}} | birth_place = [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]], Connecticut, United States | death_date = {{death date and age |2016|2|22|1927|4|10}} | death_place =[[New York City]], New York, United States | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = [[United States|American]] | ethnicity = | field = [[Computer engineering]]<br>[[Internet]] | work_institution =[[MIT Lincoln Laboratory]]<br>[[Washington University]]<br>[http://clarkrockoff.com Clark, Rockoff and Associates] | alma_mater = [[UC Berkeley]] | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = [[TX-0]], [[TX-2]], [[LINC]] | author_abbreviation_bot = | author_abbreviation_zoo = | prizes = [[Eckert-Mauchly Award]]<br>[[Computer Pioneer Award]]<br>[[National Academy of Engineering]] member | religion = | footnotes = }} '''Wesley Allison Clark''' (April 27, 1927 – February 22, 2016) was an [[Americans|American]] [[computer designer]]. He created the [[LINC]] computer, which was the first [[mini-computer]] and shares with a number of other computers (such as the [[PDP-1]]) the claim to be the inspiration for the [[personal computer]]. ==Early life== Clark was born in [[New Haven, Connecticut]]. He grew up in [[Kinderhook, New York]] and northern [[California]]. He graduated from the [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1947 with an A.B. in Physics. Clark began his career as a [[physicist]] at the [[Hanford Site]]. ==Career== In 1981 Clark received the [[Eckert-Mauchly Award]] for his work on [[computer architecture]]. He was awarded an honorary degree by Was