James George Defares vervulde talrijke functies, waaronder hoogleraar mathematische biologie in Leiden, hoofd van het Thorax laboratorium in het Academisch ziekenhuis te Groningen, gasthoogleraar en gastlector aan diverse universiteiten.
Helvetica
Helvetica was developed in 1957 by Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann at the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas type foundry) of Münchenstein, Switzerland. Haas set out to design a new sans-serif typeface that could compete with Akzidenz-Grotesk in the Swiss market.
Project Xanadu
Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu now contrast it with both paper and the World Wide Web, saying “Today’s popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivialises our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of [...]