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The Transistor Turns 60
News Although a recognised scientist and Nobel Prize winner, Shockley alienated his employees. Kilby did, however, win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000, after Noyce had died. In a gesture of solidarity, Kilby invited Gordon Moore to join him at the...
[December 17, 2007, 12:25]
Photos: Inside IBM's Zurich Research Lab
News That breakthrough brought a Nobel prize in physics in 1986 for Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer. Only a year later the lab hit the research jackpot again when Georg Bednorz and Alex Mueller scooped the same prize for their work on high-temperature...
[May 22, 2006, 13:15]
Linux Development Slows
Talkback Linux Torvalds and his team deserves a Nobel prize. I agree with you. Stallman's GNU Fundation too (and this fundation have UNESCO support now! Cheers!
[October 10, 2005, 18:41]
University Of California Delivers Broadband Connections To Residence Halls
White Papers In addition to its reputation for academic excellence, five Nobel Prize winners, and top research centers, the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) is considered one of the most beautiful campuses in the United States and the most...
[January 10, 2006, 23:00]
Messaging Platform On Sun Servers And Storage
White Papers Founded in 1789 as the first state university in the nation, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC - Chapel Hill) counts among its alumni a Nobel Prize winner, numerous renowned authors and a U.S.
[November 2, 2005, 23:00]
Researchers Move Toward Plastic Chips
News Organic polymers that conduct electricity have been around since the 1970s--last year's Nobel Prize for chemistry, for instance, went to the researchers who discovered plastic conductors, organic materials that have some resistance to the flow of...
[October 12, 2001, 9:05]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback The Nobel Prize for Economics for his redefining work on ethical welfare economics. Nobel Laureate in Physics for work on scattering of light and Raman effect. Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, (1858 - 1937)
[September 22, 2005, 10:40]
The Crossword Partner
Downloads Subject files are listed alphabetically and include many subjects shown in lists such as Actors, Actresses, Artists, Authors, Baseball players, Kentucky Derby winners, Nobel Prize winners and Superbowl winners.
[August 26, 2004, 10:31]
RSA Namesakes Win Turing Honours
News The Turing Award, described as computing's equivalent to the Nobel Prize and issued by the US Association for Computing Machinery, will go this year to Ronald L. By an impressive coincidence, the inventors of the RSA algorithm -- one of the...
[April 15, 2003, 10:22]
Thursday
Blog His Nobel prize -- shared with cat-fancier Erwin Shrodinger -- came his way at 31, the year after he'd been appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. Thursday 8/08/2002A hundred years ago today, Paul Dirac was born.
[August 9, 2002, 18:19]
High-tech's Role In The Peace Process
News Economics and politics are symbiotic," says the former prime minister of Israel and co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, who argues that the technological rejuvenation of the region will go a long way toward breaking the logjam.
[August 4, 2003, 16:10]
Linux Development Slows
Talkback Linus and the crew deserve the Nobel Prize. This is to be expected. Unlike proprietary software developers, the Linux kernel coders do NOT have to churn the user base for more Licen$e Monie$, under the guise of "upgrades", so that the world's...
[September 26, 2005, 22:06]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Along the way there'll be the first AI Nobel Prize winner (2018), the top-earning actor will be synthetic (2010, although I have my suspicions about Tom Hanks) and doubtless receive good service from BT at a reasonable price (no date set).
[January 31, 2002, 14:30]
HarperCollins And Palm To Offer E-books
News Other titles will include Mario Puzo's "The Family," Clive Barker's "Coldheart Canyon" and Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian's "Soul Mountain". Palm has signed a deal with HarperCollins Publishers to distribute e-books through Palm Digital Media, a...
[November 21, 2001, 11:46]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That adding a binary attachment to an RSS feed was not the sort of rocket science which gets you a Nobel Prize, the adoration of beautiful people and statues erected by global subscription. Friday 28/1/2005
[January 28, 2005, 17:30]
Steorn's Free Energy Seems Curiously Expensive
Talkback To them I say, if you can prove that, you deserve a nobel prize. Dark Matter, zero point energy etc, etc.aside, everyone seems to forget that there is a qualifier in the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
[August 22, 2006, 17:07]
Internet Pioneers Get US Honour
News The two men were honoured earlier this year with the 2004 AM Turing Award, widely considered to be the computing field's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf, who developed the TCP/IP protocols used to transmit traffic across...
[November 7, 2005, 8:15]
What Did Einstein Ever Do For Us?
News But the Nobel Prize came for his first work of 1905, which helped lay the foundation for quantum physics by suggesting that light behaves both like a wave and as a particle. It's rare that a person gets a chance to overturn humanity's conception of...
[June 3, 2005, 12:00]
Google Scientist To Demo Quantum Computer
News Proposed by Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman and elaborated on by David Deutsch in the 1980s, quantum computing has made slow progress because of the difficulty of building systems with more than a few quantum bits, or "qubits", and then...
[November 9, 2007, 15:29]
Inventor Of The Integrated Circuit Dies At 81
News The work, which Kilby performed during the two-week period at TI when other employees traditionally took a vacation, ultimately led to a Nobel Prize for physics in 2000. Jack Kilby, whose work on integrated circuits in the 1950s ushered in the...
[June 22, 2005, 9:15]
