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Jan. 1St Even More Candidates for First Half a Meter Deep, and Employed Public Radio Broadcast, See [Jan Around 3,000 Transistors, Kindly 13]; [Oct 6] better known 1896 The Mailüfterl was around 4 demonstration [Dec 11]. For meters wide, 2.5 meters tall and Jan. 1st even more candidates for first half a meter deep, and employed public radio broadcast, see [Jan around 3,000 transistors, kindly 13]; [Oct 6]. donated by Philips. Telegraph Trapped There were other early forms of Other early transistorized “wireless communication”, such computers include the TRADIC Tawell as Alexander Graham Bell [March 14], the Harwell CADET Jan. 1, 1845 [March 7] and Charles Sumner [Feb 00], and the TX-0 [Nov 20]. Tainter's photophone of 1880 Probably the first was the John Tawell was the first person which employed beams of light, Manchester TC [Nov 16]. to be arrested as the result of and Amos Dolbear’s 1884 Zemanek worked at the telecommunications technology. “electrostatic telephone”. Viennese Institut fur On this day, his mistress was Nevertheless, the town of Niederfrequenztechnik which found dead through poisoning at Murray promotes itself as the produced two other wonderfully her house in Slough, England. “birthplace of radio”, and named machines in the late The police learnt that a man in Stubblefield as the “father of 1950's: the distinctive Quaker clothing had broadcasting”. "Universalrelaisrechenmaschine left the house earlier and caught 1" (URR-1) and the a train heading to Paddington Logistischerelaisrechenmaschin Station in London. They used the e 1) (LRR-1). newly installed telegraph to Heinz Zemanek send a message to the station to Zemanek joined IBM in 1961, detain him, including the Born: Jan. 1, 1920; and became the first director of description: ‘He is in the garb of Vienna, Austria its influential Vienna Lab. He a Kwaker,’ There was no ‘Q’ in Died: July 16, 2014 played a significant role in the definition of PL/I [June 25], the transmitter's alphabet, but Zemanek built the first employing the "Vienna ‘Kwaker’ was understood. completely transistorized Definition Language". Later, the Tawell was caught, convicted, European computer between lab embraced denotational and hanged on March 28, 1845. May 1956 and 1958: the semantics, and its "Vienna Mailüfterl – German for “May The transmitter and receiver are Development Method" became Breeze” – a reference to MIT’s preserved in the Science popular in industry and inspired Whirlwind [April 20], which was Museum in London. several other formalisms for mearly a vacuum tube device. defining systems. Actually, Mailüfterl was only the First Public Radio machine's nickname; its full title was the “Binär dezimaler Bell Labs Formed Broadcast Volltransistor-Rechenautomat”. Jan. 1, 1925 Jan. 1, 1902 The roots of Bell Labs (now Nathan Stubbleford of Murray, known as Nokia Bell Labs) Kentucky sent his friends a New originate in the American Year’s greeting using a battery- Telephone and Telegraph operated wireless telephone of Company (AT&T), which was his own design. The message founded by Alexander Graham was received at several houses Bell [March 7] in 1874 as the and offices by similar devices, Bell Patent Association. and it was reported that music, songs, and whispered AT&T's research efforts had conversations could be heard grown so large by the early with perfect ease. 1920's that they were split off into a new subsidiary, Bell Arguments arise over the Telephone Labs Inc., on this day. technology since Stubbleford Heinz Zemanek (2007). Photo utilized conduction and by Christian Wirth (Wirthi). CC Until the 1940's, the lab’s inductive fields rather than BY-SA 3.0. principal location was in electromagnetic radiation, and Manhattan’s West Village, in a so the broadcast wasn’t building described by Vannevar technically “radio”. Bush [March 11] as “a warren of Consequently, the first wireless testing labs for phones, cables, transmission is usually assigned switches, cords, coils, and a to Oliver Lodge on [Aug 14], nearly uncountable assortment 1894. This was over a year of other essential parts.” In before Guglielmo Marconi’s 1967, the headquarters 1 relocated to Murray Hill, New Jersey. Donald Lester Hewlett and Bell Labs was responsible for an Bitzer Packard Toss a amazing range of technologies, including: radio astronomy; the Born: Jan. 1, 1934; Coin laser; information theory [April Illinois Jan. 1, 1939 30]; the CNC [Jan 8], bombes Bitzer is the father of PLATO [Sept 4]; the TRADIC [March 14], (Programmed Logic for Bill Hewlett [May 20] and Dave modems [June 26]; the CARDIAC Automatic Teaching Packard [Sept 7] decided to [July 00]; UNIX [Oct 15], Plan 9 Operations), not to be confused name their company after [July 16]; C [July 21], AWK [Aug with the father of Plato, the themselves, and chose the order 9], and C++ [Dec 30]. Greek philosopher, who was with a coin toss. The result was Eight Nobel Prizes have been named Ariston. Hewlett-Packard (HP). Packard awarded to lab members proved to be an expert including for the invention of the administrator and Hewlett an transistor [Dec 16], and the astute technical innovator. The charge-coupled device (CCD [Oct company grew into a 17]). Its researchers have won powerhouse producer of the Turing Award four times: calculators [Jan 4], computers [Dec 00]; [Oct 4]; [Nov 00], and 1968: Richard Hamming [Feb laser [May 5] and ink jet 11] printers. 1983: Ken Thompson [Feb 4] HP's first corporate HQ was in and Dennis Ritchie [Sept 9]’ Packard’s Palo Alto garage [May 17], which is now honored as 1986: Robert Tarjan [April 30] the “birthplace of Silicon Valley”. with John Hopcroft [Oct 7]; The $538 used to start the 2018: Yann LeCun and Yoshua business was borrowed from Bengio shared the award with Fred Terman [June 7], a radio Geoffrey Hinton [Dec 6]. engineering professor at Perhaps less well known is the Stanford, who supported many lab's pioneering work on A PLATO V terminal in 1981. fledging tech. companies in this computer art (A. Michael Noll Photo by Mtnman79. CC BY 3.0. way. [Aug 29]), animation (Edward E. The company's first product, the PLATO was the first general- Zajac [Jan 8], Frank Sinden, and HP 200A Audio Oscillator, purposed computer-assisted Kenneth C. Knowlton [Feb 28]), became a popular piece of instruction system, which and music (Max V. Mathews testing gear. Rumor has it that Blitzer had begun developing at [Nov 13] and John R. Pierce “200” was chosen as a way to the start of the 1960's [Aug 22]. [March 27]). disguise the fact that it was the PLATO IV [July 00] was the first business’s first piece of After the Jan. 1 1984 break-up of version to combine graphics and merchandise. AT&T, Bell Labs became AT&T touch-sensitive screens. Bell Labs, and went into In 1940 Walt Disney Pictures In 1964 Bitzer co-invented the something of a decline. After the ordered eight of the 200B's for flat plasma display panel with H. deregulation of US Telecoms in testing the speaker systems Gene Slottow and Robert 1996, AT&T Bell Labs was split installed at twelve theatres Willson, originally as an again, into AT&T Labs and showing “Fantasia”. Lucent Technologies Bell Labs. educational aid for PLATO Bell Labs continued to lose students. The screens were easy Also in 1940, the company left manpower due to layoffs and to spot since they displayed their garage, moving to grander spin-offs, and Peter Salus everything in monochromatic rented accommodation. HP was announced the closure of the orange. In Oct. 2002, the group incorporated on Aug. 18, 1947, department responsible for was awarded an Emmy for their and went public on Nov. 6, 1957. UNIX on [Aug 16] 2005. efforts. Bitzer holds patents for several other inventions, including the Brian Wilson binary-weighted solenoid. Kernighan Born: Jan. 1, 1942; Toronto, Ontario Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie [Sept 9] are the authors of the 2 celebrated first book on C, “The 15-30 seconds. Hint: I am not nodes, a limited distance apart, C Programming Language” wearing glasses and am much into something capable of (1978). It's usually known as better dressed than is my habit.” handling large networks. STP “K&R”, or the “White” book due increases the reliability of data Another quote: “Debugging is to its color (which is white!). delivery by letting a network twice as hard as writing the code contain redundant links which in the first place. Therefore, if act as backups if a link fails. It you write the code as cleverly as also disables links when they possible, you are, by definition, aren’t needed. not smart enough to debug it.” Later, she improved on STP with TRILL (TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Allan (Al) Alcorn Links), which allows Jan. 1, 1948; San connectivity to vary based on the optimal use of the current Francisco, California bandwidth. Alcorn is best known for Inevitably, because of these designing and implementing the contributions, she's sometimes game Pong [Nov 29] at Atari Brian Kernighan (2012). referred to as the mother of the [June 27], then owned by Nolan Photo by Ben Lowe. CC BY 2.0. Internet, a title she dislikes. Bushnell [Feb 5] and Ted Dabney [May 2]. He’d first met Kernighan has always said that As an undergraduate, Perlman the pair at Ampex before they'd developed a child-friendly he played no part in the design left that company to form Atari version of LOGO [Feb 29], called of C. He said: “UNIX is Ken (although they called it "Syzygy" TORTIS (“Toddler’s Own Thompson [Feb 4] with an assist back then). Recursive Turtle Interpreter from Dennis Ritchie. And C is System”). She said later that she Dennis with an assist from Ken.” Bushnell asked Alcorn to make a abandoned that work because However, he is the co-creator of simple version of the Magnavox “being the only woman around, I the AWK and AMPL languages Odyssey’s [May 2] tennis game, wanted to be taken seriously as and many other UNIX utilities, as part of a contract from a ‘scientist’ and was a little including a slew of document General Electric.
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