John Tukey

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

John Tukey
Tukey, John

   <person> The eminent statistician credited with coining the
   term "{bit}" in 1949.

   
(http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Tukey.html).

   (2003-02-28)