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The Journal of Universal Computer Science (“universal” to indicate that no area is excluded) was one of the first (if not the first) journal that published refereed papers on the Internet, yet also provided a printed “archive” version of all papers published during a year after the end of that year. It is also one of the few truly open access journals in computer science: both publication and access is free for everyone. In this paper we describe how the journal started, what problems it was confronted with, and how they were solved.
This paper is dedicated to Cris Calude on the occasion of his 60th birthday. I got to know Cris in person when I took on the position of Full Professor for Computer Science at the University of Auckland in the early nineties. At that time Cris and his family had left their home country Romania a short while ago. It was a pleasure to make friends with such a multi-talented scientist and generous person. We have been good friends ever since. If I have two wishes I have one for him: to continue to enjoy his life and to contribute to science in essential ways as he has done in the past many times (and one facet not many will know about is what is reported in this paper); and I have one wish for myself: that Cris and I meet more often. However, let me also mention one historic bit I am proud of: when I came to Auckland, Cris was still in an unacceptable junior position. I did my bit to help change this, with Cris being offered an endowed chair soon thereafter.
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Maurer, H. (2012). Calude as Father of One of the Computer Science Journals. In: Dinneen, M.J., Khoussainov, B., Nies, A. (eds) Computation, Physics and Beyond. WTCS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7160. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27654-5_2
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