Susan Hackwood

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Univ of California at Riverside college of engineering dean Susan Hackwood heads the first engineering college to be started in California in over 30 years. Hackwood is originally from England, the daughter of a television repair man. As a young girl she invented a solar-cell powered irrigation system. Upon informing her high school counselor that she wanted a career in science, she was advised to become a dental hygienist. This discouraged Hackwood from applying to Oxford or Cambridge and she eventually settled for enrollment in the Leicester Polytechnic Institute for studies in chemistry and physics. In order to move from science to electrical engineering she had to promise to complete her studies before becoming a mother. Her studies for her doctorate concentrated on solid-state ionics. She was hired by Bell Laboratories of Murray Hill, NJ as a post-doctoral researcher in ion insertion materials for use in liquid-crystal-like display devices.

Women, Engineering, Achievements and awards, Biographies, University of California (Riverside), Biography, Professionalism, California, University of (Riverside), Hackwood, Susan

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Richard W. Hamming

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Richard W. Hamming was the inventor of error correcting codes for computers. He was the computer maintenance technician for World War Two's Manhattan Project, the allied research group that built the atomic bomb. He joined Bell Telephone Laboratories after the war. He concluded at the time that engineering schools did not prepare students to work at the cutting edge of technological research. He was hired by Bell Labs to work on elasticity theory. However, the presence and increasing role that computers played at the Labs meant he had to devote more time to computing. He left Bell Labs after 30 years, at the age of 61. He has written eight books on various computing technologies. He is an adjunct professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, although he misses the intellectual climate of Bell Laboratories.

Commercial physical research, Research, Computer programming, Industrial research, Interview, Lucent Technologies Inc. Bell Laboratories, Research and Development, Error-Correcting Codes, Hamming, Richard W.

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