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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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• Max Palevsky,
• Timeline of Muslim scientists and engineers,
• Timeline of Islamic science and engineering,
• 11th century,
• FERMIAC,
• List of United States inventions,
• List of University of California, Berkeley alumni,
• List of California Institute of Technology people,
• Information science,
• List of Fellows of the Royal Society