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"What cruel fate! What torture the bugs will this day put me to!"
There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that
understand binary and those that don't.
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Henry Briggs 1561-1630
Wilhelm Schickard 1592-1635
Rene Grillet 1600s
Gaspard Schott 1608-1666
Blaise Pascal 1623-1666
Samuel Morland 1625-1695
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz 1646-1716
Pierre Jacquet-Droz 1700s
Wolfgang von Kempelen 1734-1804
Joseph-Marie Jacquard 1752-1834
Baron Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier 1768-1830
Pehr Georg Scheutz 1785-1873
Charles Babbage Teignmouth, Devonshire GB 12/26/1791-1871(London)
George Boole Lincoln GB 11/2/1815-12/8/1864
Countess of Lovelace, Augusta Ada 1816-1852
Mathew B. Brady Saratoga Springs NY 1823-1896
Martin Wiberg 1826-1905
William Stanley Jevons 1835-1882
Henry Adams 1838-1918
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John Henry Patterson 1844-1922
John K. Gore 1845-1910
Willgodt Theophil Odhner 1845-1905
Joseph Boyer 1848-1905
George Barnard Grant 1849-1917
Charles Ranlett Flint 1850-1934
Ernst Georg Fischer 1852-1935
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Clair D. Lake 1888-1958
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William Frederick Friedman 1891-1969
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Norbert Wiener Columbia MO 1894-1964
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Donald Alexander Flanders 1900-1958
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Alfred Tarski 1901-1983
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John Vincent Atanasoff Hamilton NY 10/4/1903-66/15/1995
John Louis von Neumann Budapest Hungary 12/28/1903-2/8/1957
John Grist Brainerd 1904-1988
Alston Scott Househoulder 1904
George Stibitz 1904-1995 invented first digital computer.
Derrick Henry Lehmer 1905-1991
George Robert Stibitz ~1904-1/31/1995(Hanover, NH)
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper New York NY 1/9/1906-1/1/1992(Alexandria, VA)
Reynold B. Johnson 1906
Gordon S. Brown 1907
John William Mauchly 1907-1980
Antonin Svoboda 1907-1980
John W. Mauchly 1908-1980 co-inventor with J. Presper Eckert of the first electronic digital computer, the Eniac.
James Franklin Forster 1908-1972
John Hamilton Curtiss 1909-1977
William Bradford Shockley 1910
Konrad Zuse Berlin-Wilmersdorf DE 6/22/1910
Richard Goodman 1911-1966
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Dave Packard 1912
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Herbert Alexander Simon 1916
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Jule Gregory Charney 1917-1981
Dov Chevion 1917-1983
Frank August Engel, Jr. 1917
Robert Mano Fano 1917
Ralph Ernest Meagher 1917
Andrew Donald Booth 1918
Jay Wright Forrester 1918
John R. Pasta 1918-1981
John Presper Eckert, Jr. 1919-1995 co-inventor with John W. Mauchly of the first electronic digital computer, the Eniac.
Ray Harryhausen Los Angeles CA 6/29/1920
Niels Ivar Bech 1920-1975
Robert William Bemer 1920
Frank Taylor Cary 1920
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Heinz Zemanek 1920
Isaac Levin Auerbach 1921-1992
Robert Rivers Everett 1921
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Herman Lukoff 1923-1979
Joseph Weizenbaum 1923
John Backus Philadelphia PA 1924
Julien Green 1924
Douglas C. Engelbart Portland OR 1924
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John R. Opel 1925
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page, are the co-founders of Google
Larry Ellison born 8/17/1944 in NYC
The Man Who (Really) Makes Google Tick
Georgina Russell born ~1977 works for veritas ran for gov of cal
ROOTS OF CDMA TECHNOLOGY
Code-division multiple access (CDMA) technology is now conquering the wireless world. CDMA is a form of "spread-spectrum" technology, which as its name suggests, involves spreading a radio signal out over a range of frequencies -- in contrast to the usual approach of transmitting on a single, well-defined frequency. The origins of CDMA go back to 1948, when Claude Shannon, a researcher at Bell Labs, published "A Mathematical Theory of Computation," which provides the mathematical underpinning for modern computing and communications technologies. When Shannon outlined this idea, it was entirely theoretical. The electronic hardware required to build such a system did not exist at the time. But by the 1980s, when analog mobile phones started to become popular, the limited spectrum available for wireless telephony began to become increasingly congested. Though few were aware of it, Shannon's scheme was becoming more practical by the day. [The Economist, 6/19]
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