Robert E. Magill, Senior Vice President of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Magill brought the Garden into the computer age when he originated Tropicos in the early 1980ʼs. Internally, it is a sort of computerized card file for Garden researchers. As they write their papers, taxonomists can enter all the data they get in the process of writing a paper: field data, literature data, photos, herbarium specimens. It covers all the places in the world where the Garden does research, including North America, Mesoamerica, China, Africa, Madagascar. The web version can be used by anyone, although most users are botanists who search by Latin names. Photo from Missouri Botanical Garden.