Wilf Hey

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

Wilf Hey

   <person> The person who originally developed {Report Program
   Generator} and coined the phrase GIGO (garbage in: garbage
   out).

   In 2004, after more than forty years in computing, he was
   writing for {PC Plus} magazine in the UK and doing Wilf's
   programmers workshop amongst other things.  He died on
   2007-01-01 after a long illness.

   (2007-01-06)