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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. Networking: The Story of Ethernet By today’s standards the Alto was not a particularly powerful computer. A lot of the ideas in Ada [the standard programming language of the U.S.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv

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He moved to the United States to attend MIT , where he earned a Ph.D. While at MIT, he held a part-time job as a research engineer in the applied science division at U.S. At the Technion and at Bell, Ziv conducted research in data compression, information theory, and statistical communications. in electrical engineering in 1962.

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