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Inventor of the First AI System That Could Read Handwriting Dies at 72

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Because of his expertise, Srihari was asked in 2007 to serve on the U.S. He left the company in 1979 to join The Mitre Corp. He was promoted in 1984 to head the company’s space surveillance systems department. Founder of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society’s Milwaukee Section. Srihari held seven U.S.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. Nor was 3M the first company to popularize magnetic media— that was Ampex , which commercialized the tape recorder in the late 1940s.