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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt W Beyer
By PD Smith Grace Hopper, who became a "coder" (or programmer) in the 1940s, was one of the great pioneers of the computer age. In 1934 she had been the first woman in Yale's 233-year history to graduate with a doctorate in maths. After Pearl Harbor, she worked on "a new type of secret weapon that could change the outcome of the war". The Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator was 8ft high ...
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InNexus leader develops new firm
Biotech entrepreneur Jeff Morhet drew notice in the tight-knit metro Phoenix biotechnology community for heading a small publicly traded pharmaceutical company, starting a biotech group and helping to launch a city-funded technology incubator in Chandler.
www.azcentral.com
Portland State University students' invention tops the field at national engineering competition
Four Portland State University seniors have invented a computer-aided pill identifier to help doctors and nurses act quickly in emergencies, beating out teams from top engineering schools in a national contest at Walt Disney World.
www.oregonlive.com
The Week's Top 20 in Social Media
The social media sphere is an increasingly noisy place, especially for brands. But hiding somewhere in the static are strong signals from companies reaching their customers in innovative ways. The Social Business Index from Dachis Group provides a (free) real-time ranking of more than 30,000 global brands based on their social performance. Every week we're taking a tally of who's getting heard ...
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Meet the Man Who Invented the Instructions for the Internet [Internet]
# internet Steve Crocker was there when the internet was born . The date was Oct. 29, 1969, and the place was the University of California, Los Angeles. Crocker was among a small group of UCLA researchers who sent the first message between the first two nodes of the ARPAnet, the U.S. Department of Defense–funded network that eventually morphed into the modern internet. More »
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Google honors music legend, synthesizer inventor with doodle
On Wednesday, the search giant Google honored the late Robert Moog, the inventor the electronic synthesizer, with a Google doodle.
www.fox19.com
Omahan makes living making iMac aquariums
Jake Harms doesn't claim to have invented the idea of placing an aquarium inside a vintage iMac computer. But he thinks he may be the only person to make a successful business of it.
www.redoutaroundtheworld.com
Two Futurists, Two Paths to the Future
What does the future hold? It depends on who you are and how you look at it. Two vastly different sorts of visionaries elaborated on their approaches in Austin recently.
www.gilmermirror.com
Silicon Valley's new diamond farm grows synthetic supermaterials
Eager to embed itself among the idea factories where new technologies are being invented, this week, Element Six -- a global leader in the development of synthetic diamonds, with $500 million in annual revenues opened its first U.S. production plant in Santa Clara. The company's executives chose the heart of Silicon Valley, hoping to turn diamond into a semi-precious semiconductor.
www.contracostatimes.com
A rising tide of Filipinos
They flock to the Lion City to seek employment in hotels, casinos and restaurants as well as work as professionals, nurses, computer technicians and seamen. This is besides the about 80,000 who work as domestic maids.
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