Samuel Fedida
Samuel Fedida, OBE was an Egyptian-born British telecommunication engineer responsible at Prestel for the development of Viewdata.
Fedida was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He had the idea for Viewdata in 1968 after reading a publication with the title The Computer as Communications Device. The first prototype became operational in 1974. In 1977 the system was introduced in the United Kingdom. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1980 Birthday Honours.
