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John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way To All-Digit Dialing, Dies At 94

Posted by timothy on from the hollywood-zero-one-two-three-nine dept.

First time accepted submitter g01d4 writes "Who was John E. Karlin? 'He was the one who introduced the notion that behavioral sciences could answer some questions about telephone design,' according to Ed Israelski, an engineer who worked under Mr. Karlin at Bell Labs in the 1970s. And you thought Steve Jobs was cool. An interesting obituary in the NYT."

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  1. Steve Jobs???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And you thought Steve Jobs was cool.

    Seriously? How does this have ANYTHING to do with Apple or Jobs? Why does every other story on here have to include some sort of strange mental gymnastics to make a reference to a dead CEO? Get Steve's decomposing cock out of your mouth and stop trying to tie everything to him or his fucking company!