The network not taken
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Apple Macintosh, the first widely used personal computer with a graphical user interface missed a chance to create Internet and instead chose to implement a simpler network protocol suitable for connecting only a few dozen office computers and printers. Jef Raskin, the man who designed the Macintosh states the various reasons, due to which the Macintosh could not create Internet.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2004
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Old world, new grid
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Plans of the European Organization for Nuclear Research to create a computing grid infrastructure to store data obtained from the Large Hadron Collider instrument is discussed. The instrument will be used in the study of universe.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2006
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Spectral lines
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Jack Kilby was honored with Nobel Prize for his work in physics. He developed 'The Monolithic Idea' which solved the problem of 'tyranny of numbers' that is the connections among thousands of discreet devices by hand.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2005
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