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NAE's Draper Prize Goes To PARC's Alto Developers

Posted by timothy on from the can-only-ascribe-to-blatant-favoritism dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Runner up, Dr Gene Ray (Professor of Cubicism) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That is not cubicism that is the time cube theory, presented in an invited lecture at MIT. Humans are educated stupid and too dumb to know it.