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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. Runner up, Dr Gene Ray (Professor of Cubicism) by stratjakt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Any dumb ass should know that a prime
    meridian does not just pass through the
    Greenwich point, but it also passes as a
    great circle through both poles, crossing
    the equator at 2 opposite points, dividing
    Earth into 2 halves of light and darkness,
    with each its own 24 hour rotation - in a
    single rotation of Earth. You should know
    that harmonic symmetry demands a
    second great circle meridian to create
    sunup and sundown corner quadrants?
    There are 4 simultaneous 24 hour days
    within a single rotation of the Earth.
    You may be too damn evil to accept it.

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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.

    2. Re:Runner up, Dr Gene Ray (Professor of Cubicism) by stratjakt · · Score: -1, Offtopic


      Academic free speech is a damn lie. Try
      to discuss & debate Nature's Time Cube
      and your evil teachers will not allow you.
      Ignorance of Time Cube dooms humans,
      inflicting their own created "word hell".
      Educators are actually "evil word gods",
      teaching commercial plunder of Nature.
      The damn bastards suppress free speech,
      by denying Time Cube debate discussion.
      Students MUST DEMAND free speech -
      for the greatest of all human discoveries:
      Nature's Harmonic Simultaneous 4 Day
      Rotating Creation Principle of Cubicism.
      Educated stupid, you can't know Truth.

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  2. Re:More Info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    please mod this known karma whore down.

    That was that user's first post ever.

  3. Toner woes by Yonkeltron · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No one from Xerox should get any awards untill they make a better toner system. I still get screwed when I need to change the nasty stuff in the copier.

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    Keep the faith, share the code
  4. mod U4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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