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Max Palevsky
With his background in logic and electronics, Palevsky first worked on a computer project in 1951 for $100 a week designing computers at Northrop Aircraft, Inc. of Hawthorne, CA, designing the last and most sophisticated differential analyzer, the "Maddida," "the magnetic drum differential analyzer," a desk-sized electronic computer priced from $25,000 to $30,000 first shown publicly in March 1950 to January 1951, originally invented by physicist Floyd G. Steele. -
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Timeline of Muslim scientists and engineers
1960 [physics] Iranian physicist Ali Javan invents the gas laser ... 2005 [computer science] PayPal is re-designed and upscaled to 63 million users by Jawed Karim. -
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Timeline of Islamic science and engineering
He also invents the equatorium, a mechanical analog computer device, and he discovers that the orbits of the planets are ellipses and not circles. -
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11th century
Latin translation of the Book of Optics (1021), written by the Iraqi physicist, Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen). ... 1020 - Ibn Samh of Al-Andalus invents a geared mechanical astrolabe, an example of an analog computer. -
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FERMIAC
The Monte Carlo trolley, or FERMIAC, was an analog computer invented by physicist Enrico Fermi to aid in his studies of neutron transport. -
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List of United States inventions
John Rand invents a collapsible metal squeeze tube. ... Working at Hughes Research Laboratories, physicist Theodore H. Maiman creates the first laser. -
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List of University of California, Berkeley alumni
Chien-Shiung Wu, Ph.D. 1940 - physicist ... However, Kirk merely invents this story to explain Spock's strange appearance and behavior. -
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List of California Institute of Technology people
John Platt PhD 1989 - Computer scientist ... Barry Simon - mathematical physicist -
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Information science
By 1872 Lord Kelvin devised an analogue computer to predict the tides, and by 1875 Frank Baldwin was granted the first US patent for a practical calculating machine that performs four arithmetic functions. -
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List of Fellows of the Royal Society
Samson Abramsky, computer scientist 2004 ... James Clerk Maxwell, physicist 1864
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