head of the Space Department of APL. Transit’s main purpose was to provide position updates to the United States submarine ballistic-missile force then under development. These submarines were a major deterrent during the Cold War. Transit was first tested in 1960, and by 1964 the system was ...
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a British computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers and invented microprogramming, a method for using stored-program logic...
centuries — these key technological architects of modern life — have long gone unheard, their praises unsung. What about the woman who created the Palm Pilot, the woman who made working from home a reality, the woman who invented online dating, or the woman who helped Obama save the ...
I first heard of Willy Higginbotham in 1985 and then met him when he testified for the opposition in a lawsuit by Nintendo vs. Sanders (my company)...I watched him testify. It was clear to the judge that Higginbotham had not invented video games for all the reason that I cited. We wo...
Based on a satellite defense system invented in 2073, it consists of plasma rays and control structures. The satellites form a system of mirrors which ena- ble plasma beams fired at Earth to be very accu- rately aimed. The plasma cannon system can reach the enemy anywhere on the map! Its...
“That’s where everything, in my personal view, turned sour,” Woodruff says. “Suddenly the ‘silver bullet’ had been invented. The silver bullet was something that would solve one of the more vexing problems facing the Strategic Defense Initiative architectural people. They had to devise a...
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