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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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The Mac’s success during the 1980s spurred Apple Computer to pursue legal action over ownership of many features of the graphical user interface. Suits now being litigated could assign those innovations not to the designers and their companies, but to those who first filed for legal protection on them. In March 1989, U.S.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Squibb, were at the time locked in a nasty legal battle over the commercial rights to the antibiotic tetracycline. In the course of the ensuing criminal trial, Shannon, Asmann, and Ruh were all granted immunity in exchange for testifying against Broady, who emerged as the brains behind the operation. The two firms, Bristol-Myers and.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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Giving you access to perks, including Spectrum magazine and many education and career resources. My primary appointment is at the law school where I teach legal philosophy. So it was from 1600 to 2014, about whether you’re allowed legally to go to war. And how does it relate to legal and ethical questions we have?

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