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Aaron Sorkin's THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION
FLAT EARTH THEATRE THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION Page 1 of 3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2015 CONTACT: Lindsay Eagle, Marketing and Publicity Chair [email protected] (954) 2603316 Brilliant Minds Go Head to Head to Invent Groundbreaking Technology in: Aaron Sorkin’s THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION WHAT: Flat Earth Theatre presents Aaron Sorkin’s THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION WHEN: THREE WEEKS ONLY: Friday, June 12th @ 8pm; Saturday, June 13th @ 8pm; Sunday, June 14th @ 2pm; Friday, June 19th @ 8pm; Saturday, June 20th @ 8pm; Sunday, June 21st @ 2pm; Monday, June 22nd @ 7:30pm; Thursday, June 25th @ 8pm; Friday, June 26th @ 8pm; and Saturday, June 27th @ 8pm WHERE: The Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA, 02472 TICKETS: $20 in advance; $25 at the door; $10 student rush PRESS NIGHT: Sunday, June 14th @ 2pm FOR PRESS TICKETS: Contact Lindsay Eagle, [email protected] or (954) 2603316 WATERTOWN, MA (May 14, 2015) Brilliant minds go head to head in THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION by Emmy Award–winning playwright and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing and The Social Network. Upstart inventor Philo Farnsworth faces off against media mogul David Sarnoff in a nailbiting race to be the first to develop one of the twentieth century's most influential inventions: television. Directed by 2015 IRNE Award winner and fringe powerhouse Sarah Gazdowicz, THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION continues Flat Earth’s 2015 season “Progress and Peril,” stories of scientific progress and the lives it has ruined. Philo Farnsworth, a child prodigy raised on a farm in rural Idaho, has overcome adversity to create the world’s first electronic television. -
2016 Ncta Intx May 16Th & 17Th
A Center for Law, 2016 NCTA INTX Technology, and Entrepreneurship ACADEMIC WORKSHOP at the University Silicon of Colorado MAY 16TH & 17TH latirons WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS Workshop Locations Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law, Harvard University Babette E. Boliek, Associate Professor, Pepperdine University School of Law Monday, May 16, 2016 Adam Candeub, Professor, Michigan State University College of Law Samberg Conference Center - MIT David Clark, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6th Floor, Dining Room 5 & 6 Stacey Dogan, Professor, Boston University School of Law MIT Chang Building (E52) Carolyn Gideon, Assistant Professor of International Communication and Technology 50 Memorial Drive Policy and Director of Hitachi Center for Technology and International Affairs, The Cambridge, MA 02139 Fletcher School, Tufts University Ray Gifford, Senior Fellow, Silicon Flatirons, University of Colorado Shane Greenstein, Professor, Harvard Business School Tuesday, May 17, 2016 Christiaan Hogendorn, Associate Professor of Economics, Wesleyan University Boston Convention and John B. Horrigan, Senior Researcher, Pew Research Center Expo Center Gus Hurwitz, Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska College of Law 415 Summer Street Roslyn Layton, PhD Fellow, Aalborg University Boston, MA 02210 William Lehr, Research Scientist/CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Directions & Parking Daniel Lyons, Associate Professor, Boston College Law School Information John Mayo, Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy, Georgetown University -
October 2011 Newsletter
Society of Broadcast Engineers Chapter 24 Newsletter October 2011 Madison, Wisconsin Next Meeting From the Chair... The Farnsworth Invention >>> by Bill Hamilton, Chapter Chair is Theater for the Broadcast Wednesday, October 12 Engineer I would like to start out this month >>> by Vicki W. Kipp UPPER MIDWEST REGIONAL with a bit of old business. As noted in SOCIETY OF BROADCAST an earlier newsletter, Chapter 24 was the Mark your calendar to attend a theater ENGINEERS MEETING recipient of three national SBE awards: performance in November! If ever there Best Website, Best Newsletter and Best were a Broadway play that would interest Regional Convention. The awards were a broadcast engineer, this is it. The SPECIAL GUEST given out at the SBE National Convention Farnsworth Invention will be performed SPEAKER in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday in Madison at the Overture Center’s DR. BARRY ORTON September 28th. Rich Wood of Resonant Playhouse Theater. Results was on hand to represent Chapter With a cast of 16 actors playing more Dr. Barry Orton is Professor 24 and receive our awards. than 70 roles, The Farnsworth Invention of Telecommunications in the Now on to the new business, it’s is presented by the Forward Theater Department of Professional shaping up to be a busy October. First Company in collaboration with the UW- Development and Applied Studies, and foremost we have the Broadcasters Madison Department of Theatre and Division of Continuing Studies, Clinic. The award winning regional Drama/University Theatre. University of Wisconsin—Madison. convention put on by the Wisconsin The Farnsworth Invention tells the For over thirty years his primary Broadcasters Association and the SBE dramatic story of the development of duty at the UW-Madison has been chapters of the upper Midwest. -
The Mythical Beginnings of Intellectual Property
THE MYTHICAL BEGINNINGS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY * Jessica Silbey INTRODUCTION People commonly justify intellectual property protection with homage to utilitarianism (maximizing the incentive to create, invent, or produce quality goods)1 or natural rights (people should own the product of their creative, inventive, or commercial labor).2 Despite the on-going dominance of these theories, a dissatisfying lack of a comprehensive explanation for the value of intellectual property protection remains.3 One reason for this failure is that economic analysis of intellectual property law tends to undervalue its humanistic element.4 Whereas utilitarianism and natural rights theories are familiar, at least one other basis for intellectual property protection exists. This Article explains how intellectual property protection is rooted in narrative theory.5 It contends that all the U.S. copyright, patent, and trademark regimes are structured around and * Associate Professor of Law, Suffolk University School of Law. [email protected]. Ph.D. University of Michigan (Comparative Literature), J.D., University of Michigan Law School, A.B. Stanford University. For their helpful comments on this developing project, I thank Barton Beebe, Dan Burk, Frank Cooper, Lorie Graham, Michael Madison, William McGeveran, Stephen McJohn, Robert Merges, Michael Rustad, Miguel Schor and Rebecca Tushnet. Thanks also to workshop participants and colloquia attendees at the 2006 Intellectual Property Scholars Conference at Boalt Hall, University of Iowa College of Law, and the Washington College of Law at American University, and the New England IP Scholars Forum hosted by Northeastern University School of Law. I received excellent research assistance from Andrea DeStefano, Paul D’Agostino and Steven Dimirsky and from the staff of the John Joseph Moakley Suffolk University Law Library, especially Susan Sweetgall and Sabrina Ash. -
Technology Giants in Patent Wars: Competition, Litigations and Innovation
1 Technology giants in patent wars: competition, litigations and innovation Heli Koski (ETLA/Aalto University) & Juha Luukkonen (ETLA) 26.4.2017 Building Expertise for Innovation -conference 2 Background • Patent wars involve aggressive intellectual property disputes and patent litigations. • Substantial costs for parties involved in them: In 2012, average cost of U.S. patent litigation for cases with over $25 million at stake was close to $6 million per party through trial, and even higher for those cases with retrials or appeals (The American Intellectual Property Law Association) • Damage to those found liable for patent infringement may be massive, examples: - Median damages awarded for U.S. patent holders in telecom industry 1995 – 2012: over $50 million - In 2012, Samsung was ordered to pay over $1 billion to Apple for its patent infringements (e.g., Iphone physical design, functions) 3 Background • Large technology companies (e.g., Apple, Microsoft, Samsung) have been in the spotlight. - Criticized for their massive investments in patent infringement lawsuits and accumulation of patent portfolios to secure patents for litigation. - Also envisioned envisioned as the major originators of patent wars filing lawsuits against each other. • Underlying forces of patent portfolio races and via what channels patent wars contribute to firm’s accumulation of patent portfolios lack empirical evidence. 4 Research questions • How large technology companies respond to i) patent wars involving firm directly, ii) patent wars not involving firms directly but emerging in their geographical market area, iii) higher fragmentation of patent ownership? • To what extent each of these elements contributes to a) patent portfolio races b) quality of their patented inventions? 5 Conceptual framework • Patent races (game-theoretic models): firms compete to be the first inventors of certain technology. -
THE DEFENSIVE PATENT PLAYBOOK James M
THE DEFENSIVE PATENT PLAYBOOK James M. Rice† Billionaire entrepreneur Naveen Jain wrote that “[s]uccess doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.”1 Companies with innovative ideas must execute patent strategies effectively to navigate the current patent landscape. But in order to develop a defensive strategy, practitioners must appreciate the development of the defensive patent playbook. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”2 Congress attempts to promote technological progress by granting patent rights to inventors. Under the utilitarian theory of patent law, patent rights create economic incentives for inventors by providing exclusivity in exchange for public disclosure of technology.3 The exclusive right to make, use, import, and sell a technology incentivizes innovation by enabling inventors to recoup the costs of development and secure profits in the market.4 Despite the conventional theory, in the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous technology companies viewed patents as unnecessary and chose not to file for patents.5 In 1990, Microsoft had seven utility patents.6 Cisco © 2015 James M. Rice. † J.D. Candidate, 2016, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. 1. Naveen Jain, 10 Secrets of Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur, INC. (Aug. 13, 2012), http://www.inc.com/naveen-jain/10-secrets-of-becoming-a-successful- entrepreneur.html. -
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The Columbia SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW www.stlr.org THE DEVIL IN THE DETAILS: A CRITIQUE OF KSR‘S UNWARRANTED REINTERPRETATION OF ―PERSON HAVING ORDINARY SKILL‖ Andrew B. Dzeguze1 In KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc., the Supreme Court took it upon itself to comment on the supposed knowledge and capacities of a ―person having ordinary skill in the art‖ as used in 35 U.S.C. § 103. This phrase is a key component of analyzing whether patents are ―obvious‖ and lack sufficient value to justify the award of a patent. The perspective of a ―person of ordinary skill in the art‖ is also used in virtually every meaningful standard in the field of patent law. Despite this significance, the Court felt no need to engage in any sort of structural or statutory analysis of the phrase. Instead, the Court at several points suggested that a ―person having ordinary skill in the art‖ would have qualities that are not apparent from the plain language of the statute - such as creativity and insight beyond their immediate field. It may be that the Court did not realize that its statements regarding ―persons having ordinary skill in the art‖ have significant implications both for patent cases involving obviousness and several other areas of the law. Therefore, this article seeks to fill the gaps left by the Court. By way of background, there is a discussion of the origins and evolution of the United States patent system and the development of the concept of ―obviousness‖ over time. An effort at statutory construction of these terms is then made. -
The Power of Light
David N Payne Dedicated to: Guglielmo Marconi and Charles Kao Director ORC University of Southampton 1909 2009 Nobel Laureates in Physics Wireless and optical fibres The power of light GPS systems, synchronous data networks, cell phone telephony, time stamping financial trades Large scale interferometers for telescopes Optical gyroscopes Data centres/computer interconnects Financial traders You can’t beat vacuum for loss, speed of light or stability! The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) on Paranal Mountain Data Centre Interconnection Information flow/unit area and latency is key in supercomputers and data centres 20,000 km of fibre per data centre in Facebook alone! Vacuum transit time is 30% lower High-performance: applications in inertial guidance, navigation, platform stabilization, GPS flywheeling, etc. Lower-performance: Consumer / industrial applications in Performancemotion control, industrial limited processing, byconsumer glass electronics, core etc. Periodic lattice of holes Hollow air core Advantage: Typically less than 0.1% optical power in cladding. Ultra-low nonlinearity, lower loss? Vacuum fibre technology Fibres that largely ignore the materials from which they are made Power in glass < 0.01% low nonlinearity Transmission loss < 0.01 dB/m As you wouldLow Latencyexpect (30% from lower) vacuum! Phase insensitive Radiation hard IR transmitting The new anti-resonant fibre 22.3 µm 40.2 µm Width = 359.6 nm 20μm OFC 2016, Los Angeles, PDPTh5A.3 Low Latency data communications • Data transmission at 99.7% the speed of light in vacuum • ‘Only’ 69.4% in a conventional fibre Latency savings (vs conventional fibres): 1m 1.54 ns 100m 154 ns 1km 1.54 µs 100km 154 µs Phase Insensitive Fibres The phase of a signal in a fibre changes with temperature owing to: • Change in refractive index • Change in fibre length • Vacuum fibre temperature sensitivity 2 ps/km/K • 18.5 times smaller than conventional fibres Dr Radan Slavik Slavik et al., Scientific Reports 2015. -
The Great Telecom Meltdown for a Listing of Recent Titles in the Artech House Telecommunications Library, Turn to the Back of This Book
The Great Telecom Meltdown For a listing of recent titles in the Artech House Telecommunications Library, turn to the back of this book. The Great Telecom Meltdown Fred R. Goldstein a r techhouse. com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the U.S. Library of Congress. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Goldstein, Fred R. The great telecom meltdown.—(Artech House telecommunications Library) 1. Telecommunication—History 2. Telecommunciation—Technological innovations— History 3. Telecommunication—Finance—History I. Title 384’.09 ISBN 1-58053-939-4 Cover design by Leslie Genser © 2005 ARTECH HOUSE, INC. 685 Canton Street Norwood, MA 02062 All rights reserved. Printed and bound in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. All terms mentioned in this book that are known to be trademarks or service marks have been appropriately capitalized. Artech House cannot attest to the accuracy of this information. Use of a term in this book should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark. International Standard Book Number: 1-58053-939-4 10987654321 Contents ix Hybrid Fiber-Coax (HFC) Gave Cable Providers an Advantage on “Triple Play” 122 RBOCs Took the Threat Seriously 123 Hybrid Fiber-Coax Is Developed 123 Cable Modems -
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts Foresight, Insight, Oversight, and Hindsight in Scientific Discovery: How Sighted Were Galileo's Telescopic Sightings? Dean Keith Simonton Online First Publication, January 30, 2012. doi: 10.1037/a0027058 CITATION Simonton, D. K. (2012, January 30). Foresight, Insight, Oversight, and Hindsight in Scientific Discovery: How Sighted Were Galileo's Telescopic Sightings?. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0027058 Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts © 2012 American Psychological Association 2012, Vol. ●●, No. ●, 000–000 1931-3896/12/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/a0027058 Foresight, Insight, Oversight, and Hindsight in Scientific Discovery: How Sighted Were Galileo’s Telescopic Sightings? Dean Keith Simonton University of California, Davis Galileo Galilei’s celebrated contributions to astronomy are used as case studies in the psychology of scientific discovery. Particular attention was devoted to the involvement of foresight, insight, oversight, and hindsight. These four mental acts concern, in divergent ways, the relative degree of “sightedness” in Galileo’s discovery process and accordingly have implications for evaluating the blind-variation and selective-retention (BVSR) theory of creativity and discovery. Scrutiny of the biographical and historical details indicates that Galileo’s mental processes were far less sighted than often depicted in retrospective accounts. Hindsight biases clearly tend to underline his insights and foresights while ignoring his very frequent and substantial oversights. Of special importance was how Galileo was able to create a domain-specific expertise where no such expertise previously existed—in part by exploiting his extensive knowledge and skill in the visual arts. Galileo’s success as an astronomer was founded partly and “blindly” on his artistic avocations. -
The Theory of Multiple Simultaneous Discoveries
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Electronic archive of Tomsk Polytechnic University В целом видно, что студенты положительно оценивают наличие дисциплины «Творческий проект» в учебном плане и дают высокую оценку качеству ее проведения. Вывод: Кто такой инженер? И что такое творчество? Инженер от лат. «ingenium» означает способность, изобретательность. Инженер имеет дело с разработкой и внедрением инноваций и для этого ему необходим творческий как подход как основа будущей деятельности. Творчество – создание чего-то нового, которое непременно разрешает определенную проблему. Отсюда видно, что эти два понятия тесно связаны. Поэтому авторы считают, что дисциплина «Творческий про- ект» положительно влияет на процесс обучения студентов младших курсов и дает возможность получения глубоких практических знаний технических основ будущей профессии. ЛИТЕРАТУРА: 1. Всемирная инициатива CDIO. Стандарты: информ.-метод. изд. / пер. с англ. и ред. А. И. Чучалина, Т. С. Петровской, Е. С. Ку- люкиной; Том. политехн. ун-т. – Томск, 2011. 2. Рабочие программы по дисциплине «Творческий проект» [Элек- тронный ресурс] – URL: http://portal.tpu.ru/fond2 (дата обраще- ния: 13.09.15). Научный руководитель: В.С. Иванова, к.т.н., доцент, каф. ТП ИНК. THE THEORY OF MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS DISCOVERIES D.V. Isaeva National research Tomsk polytechnic university, Institute of non- destructive testing, Precise instrument making department, group 1B3V Since the beginning of time, people have been making different dis- coveries and inventions. They make great discoveries, which are based not only on the experience of previous generations, but on experiments and scientific analysis. However, what is the nature of discoveries? Theories of invention has been an ongoing discussion for more than a century. -
The Marriage That Almost Was Western Union Has Always Been R.Idiculed for Rejecting the All Telephone
RETROSPECTIVE .Innovation The marriage that almost was Western Union has always been r.idiculed for rejecting the telephone. But what actually happened wasn't so ridiculous after all The hirth of the telephone.,-one hundred years ago railway and illuminating gas to Cambridge, Mass. this month-is a fascinating story of the geJ;Jius and Long intrigued by telegraphy, he decided to do persistence of on.e man. In addition, it is an instruc something about what he called "this monopoly tive demonstration of how an industrial giant, in with its inflated capital which serves its stockhold this case the Western Union Telegraph Co., can ers better than the 'public and whose:rates are ex miss its chance to foster an industry-creating orbitant and prohibiting of many kinds of busi breakthrough-something that has happened again ness." Between 1868 and 1874, he lobbied unceas and again in electronics and other fields. ingly, shuttling back and forth betweep. homes in Between ·1875 and 1879, Western Union's chiefs Boston and Washington. for a private "postal tele engaged in an intricate minuet with Alexander graph company" to be chartered by Congress but Graham Bell and his associates. On more than one with Hubbard and some of his friends among the occasion, the telegraph colossus came excruciating incorporators. As Hubbard envisioned it, the com ly close to absorbing the small group of ~ntre pany would build telegraph lines along the nation's preneurs, That the absorption was finally avoided rail and post roads and contract with the Post was probably the result of a technological gamble Office Department to send telegrams on its wires ~t that simply didn't payoff, as rates roughly half those being charged by Western ••• The place: the ollie of well as a clash of personali Union.