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NAE's Draper Prize Goes To PARC's Alto Developers
mccalli writes "The National Academy of Engineering has awarded the Charles Stark Draper Prize to various individuals 'for the vision, conception, and development of the principles for, and their effective integration in, the world's first practical networked personal computers.' The prize is shared amongst two ex-Xerox people, with MIT and HP also making a showing."
...recently as a terrorist organization. I'd hate to see those PARC people get hurt.
The prize is shared amongst two ex-Xerox people...
Headling which was a prelude to this one...
Two Xerox Employees Fired Over Butt-Copying Incident, footage at 11....
He got a prize already. Hence his name.
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
Did they have to share because they...copied each other's work?
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Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all day folks. Try the linux; it's really secure today.Name one MS product which wasn't just a clone of a pre-established technology.
Does FUD count as a product?
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But seriously...
It's kind of strange the number of successful professional geeks that have undergone gender reassignment surgery. Is there something weird happening in the science library? Or do other professions have the same distribution, and we just notice because it's our field?