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from computers, programming languages posted in technology by prof_improbable
In 1954, John Backus (and a team of developers) invented the Fortran programming language at the IBM Watson Laboratory on the Columbia University campus. Fortran was the first high level programming language, and it's still used in scientific and industrial applications today.
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from new space, space travel posted in technology by prof_improbable
Formerly known as Arkyd Astronautics, Planetary Resources is an asteroid mining company headed by Space Adventures CEO Eric Anderson and X PRIZE founder and chairman Dr. Peter Diamandis.
Planetary Resources has a roster of advisors and investors that any tech company would envy: filmmaker James Cameron, Google inventor Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt, and billionaire heir Ross Perot, Jr.
The mission statement of Planetary Resources?- "Harnessing valuable minerals from a practically infinite source will provide stability on Earth, increase humanity’s prosperity, and help establish and maintain human presence in space."
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from space travel, new space posted in technology by pete_nice
Founded by Eric Anderson in 1998 (two years after he graduated college), Space Adventures specializes in space tourism. Specifically, the company books passage on Russian spaceflights for space tourists and organizes all the necessary training.
Space Adventures had the world's first space tourist, entrepreneur Dennis Tito, as a client in 2001. They continue to plan for zero-G flights, suborbital and orbital spaceflights, and hope to provide the world's first private lunar mission.
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from dna posted in technology by corporate_sunshine
On February 28, 1953, Francis Crick, a researcher at Cambridge, walked into this popular campus watering hole. His announcement: Crick and James Watson had "discovered the secret of life."
Namely, the two had decoded the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. Sixty years later, that discovery is still having massive ramifications.
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from light emitting diode (led) posted in technology by pete_nice
Back in 1962, this was the campus for the Syracuse wing of General Electric. Constructed in 1945-1946, the original buildings housed a number of research facilities.
In 1962 at Electronics Laboratory Building #3, Nick Holonyak did the initial work and created the first light emitting diode (or LED). Fifty years later, the LED light bulb is now the most energy efficient light bulb on the market: LED light bulbs take 6-8 watts to power, versus 60 watts for an incandescent and 13-15 for a comparable CFL. Also, they are supposed to last for 10 million years.
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