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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. where he continued his networking work.

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This 6-Million-Dollar AI Changes Accents as You Speak

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Stanford University prides itself on its international diversity, touting that today's undergraduates hail from 70 countries. We knew about accent-reduction therapy and being taught to emulate the way someone else speaks in order to connect with them.

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Facebook Steps Toward Cryptocurrencies

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The limited pilot will be restricted to 200,000 users in the US and Guatemala. Novi's targeting of remittances could also hint at a deeper goal, says Ludovico Rella , a research associate at Durham University in the UK.

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