The History of the Nemeth Code: An
Interview with Dr. Abraham Nemeth
by Caryn Navy
Reprinted with permission of the author from
issue 93 of the Raised Dot Computing Newsletter,
. Also reprinted with permission
from Future Reflections Special Issue: A Celebration of Braille, volume 28, number 1.
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Editor's Note: At the age of 90, Dr. Nemeth is still
active physically and mentally; he works on
Braille codes, travels, speaks (and tells terrible-and terribly funny--jokes), and is truly an inspiration and role model for blind youth everywhere.
Here is the 1991 interview in which he explains to
Caryn Navy (who is currently with Duxbury Sys-
