Homer Richards Warner, 1922–2012

Homer, the ancient Greek poet (8th or 7th century BC) was the reator of the Iliad, an epic poem of dactylic hexameters that tells s the history of the Trojan, and also – as a kind of sequel – the dyssey that tells us about the hero Odysseus’ journey home after he fall of Troy in dactylic hexameters. Homer Richards Warner (1922–2012), the US-American cardilogist was the creator of ILIAD and ODYSSEY in the 20th century, wo computer systems to support teaching and learning during the edical internship at the University of Utah. Computers have been used as aids for teaching in direct interction with students since the 1960s and the National Science oundation (NFS) sponsored two large scale projects to introduce omputer-assisted instruction (CAI) into schools at the end of this ecade: PLATO (program logic for automatic teaching operations) nd TICCIT (time-shared interactive computer-controlled informaion television) [1–4]. PLATO provided about 1000 terminals with a entrally stored library of lessons not only on medicine but also on hemistry, computer sciences, and language. TICCIT combined two ini-computers and television receivers in an instructional system or up to 128 terminals. When NFS commissioned the Educational Testing Service (ETS) o evaluate the potential of the computer in college teaching, and ven the test results “showed that computer-based instruction ade small but significant contributions to the course achieveent of college students and also produced positive, but again mall, effects on the attitudes of students toward instruction and oward the subject matter they were studying” ([5], p. 525), there as also the view that “institutions of higher education would ccept computer-assisted instruction as an additional resource for romoting student learning.” ([3], p. 3).