Ron Dennis among winners of British Inspiration Award

Source: YallaF1

May 26 (McLaren Press Release) Executive Chairman, McLaren Group and McLaren Automotive Ron Dennis CBE was among the winners at the annual British Inspiration Awards on 24 May, receiving recognition in the Science and Technology ca ...
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Los doctores Hobbs, Sawyers y Yamanaka optan al Príncipe de Investigación

Source: Fox News Latino

Oviedo (España) – La genetista estadounidense Helen Hobbs, el oncólogo Charles L. Sawyers, de la misma nacionalidad, y el médico japonés Shinya Yamanaka se encuentran entre los 45 candidatos que este año optan al Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Invest ...
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Van Jacobson Denies Averting Internet Meltdown in 1980s

Source: Wired

Van Jacobson: the man who averted the late-'80s internet meltdown. Or not. Photo: PARC All Van Jacobson wanted to do was upload a few documents to the internet. Unfortunately, it was 1985. The internet wasn’t yet called the intern ...
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Source: Life After Mastermind

I’ve worked with my current Head of Department for 25 years. He was second in the department when I started in the school. I can distinctly remember him saying in about 1991 words to the effect of – you will NEVER get me ...
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Southampton professors to co-direct the world’s first Open Data Institute

Source: AlphaGalileo,org

The UK Government has announced plans to establish the world’s first Open Data Institute, which will be co-directed by University of Southampton Professors Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, to support growth of new businesses on the back of Governm ...
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Cosmic harmonies: Fellows Friday with Bilge Demirkoz

Source: TED

CERN particle physicist Bilge Demirköz investigates everything from dark matter to the possibility of antigalaxies, trying to understand what we — and the universe — are made of. What is it about space and the investigation of dark matter and antimatte ...
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Interview: Nigel Shadbolt on the Open Data Institute

Source: ComputerWeekly.com

The government’s intention to fund a £10m Open Data Institute (ODI) headed by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and artificial intelligence professor Nigel Shadbolt was announced in March. But with the publication of an implementation, ...
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My Hero

Source: OpPapers.com

My Hero: Tim Berners-Lee Most of us don’t really have an idea of when the internet arouse in the world. The credit for this would surely go to Tim Berners-Lee. Who is credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web. A physicist, Berners-Lee and his team b ...
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My jubilee heroes: Never mind the right-on BBC list - here are 60 truly great 'Elizabethans'

Source: Daily Mail - UK

The BBC has set out to choose 60 people who have influenced the Queen's long reign - but who is truly worthy of inclusion? This week in the Mail, I described how I writhed and wriggled as an oft-outvoted member of the BB ...
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