Scientists, Inventors And Techno Wizards

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Simon Ramo, the 'R' of aerospace company TRW, has died aged 103.

 

He was the chief scientist on the USA's ICBM programme as well as an author on subjects as diverse as space exploration and tennis.

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No idea where to file this so here will do... Futurist Alvin Toffler is dead. Did he see it coming? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-30/future-shock-author-alvin-toffler-dies-aged-87/7556062

[Sir Creep 7,070]

No idea where to file this so here will do... Futurist Alvin Toffler is dead. Did he see it coming? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-30/future-shock-author-alvin-toffler-dies-aged-87/7556062

It IS kinda tough to figure where to file the 'AUTHOR of Future Shock' at. Just repeating the big bold headline don't kill the messenger.

SirC

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Hungarian Scientist Rudolf Kalman, inventor of the Kalman filter, dead at 86:

 

http://hungarytoday.hu/news/renowned-hungarian-scientis-rudolf-kalman-dies-aged-86-46732

 

The filter was a mathematical technique that got applied in the Apollo program and the US Space Shuttle program. He also was a professor at Stanford.

[YoungWillz 21,037]

Robert Fano, computer scientist and DDP pick dies at 98. http://news.mit.edu/2016/robert-fano-obituary-0715

 

Awaiting the usual.

[rockhopper penguin 2,265]

Robert Fano, computer scientist and DDP pick dies at 98. http://news.mit.edu/2016/robert-fano-obituary-0715

 

Awaiting the usual.

He's the 2nd of the F's I did the obits for to go and the first real one. I don't count Fekete because there was no information to be had on him (and still isn't other than cancer and dead).

[JiroemonKimura 95]

Robert Fano, computer scientist and DDP pick dies at 98. http://news.mit.edu/2016/robert-fano-obituary-0715

 

Awaiting the usual.

I strongly doubt he will get a QO for the DDP. I've noticed that mathematicians and scientists have received surprisingly little coverage in the news. Walter Kohn, a Nobel Prize winning scientist with Wiki pages in 40 languages, shockingly did not get a QO yet and only received a few obits (about 10 in English and 15 in German), while a person of similar notability level in another field could easily get hundreds.

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Robert Fano, computer scientist and DDP pick dies at 98. http://news.mit.edu/2016/robert-fano-obituary-0715

 

Awaiting the usual.

I strongly doubt he will get a QO for the DDP. I've noticed that mathematicians and scientists have received surprisingly little coverage in the news. Walter Kohn, a Nobel Prize winning scientist with Wiki pages in 40 languages, shockingly did not get a QO yet and only received a few obits (about 10 in English and 15 in German), while a person of similar notability level in another field could easily get hundreds.

 

 

It does surprise me that Kohn hasn't gotten anything. Nobel laureates are usually prime material for those backlog filler Guardian/Telegraph obits.

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What do you think of this recent picture of DNA discoverer James Watson?

 

 

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/dna-discovery-pioneer-james-watson-pays-cambridge/story-29382045-detail/story.html

Here's a more friendly picture of him:

 

https://www.statnews.com/2016/07/20/james-watson-cancer/

 

He had recent heart surgery which impacts his memory. But he can still play tennis.

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Robert Fano, computer scientist and DDP pick dies at 98. http://news.mit.edu/2016/robert-fano-obituary-0715

 

Awaiting the usual.

 

A belated obit arrives for Fano - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3714716/Personal-computing-pioneer-former-MIT-professor-dies-98.html

[YoungWillz 21,037]

Seymour Papert reportedly dead at 88. https://twitter.com/LogoFoundation/status/760057041687830528

 

Co-Inventor of LOGO programming language, pioneer of artificial intelligence and DDP pick, awaiting obit.

 

Also one of those happy few born on February 29.

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Seymour Papert reportedly dead at 88. https://twitter.com/LogoFoundation/status/760057041687830528

 

Co-Inventor of LOGO programming language, pioneer of artificial intelligence and DDP pick, awaiting obit.

 

Also one of those happy few born on February 29.

Great death reports today after weeks of nothing.

[YoungWillz 21,037]

 

Seymour Papert reportedly dead at 88. https://twitter.com/LogoFoundation/status/760057041687830528

 

Co-Inventor of LOGO programming language, pioneer of artificial intelligence and DDP pick, awaiting obit.

 

Also one of those happy few born on February 29.

Great death reports today after weeks of nothing.

 

 

Papert gets a Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/aug/03/seymour-papert-obituary

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Iran's official news agency, IRNA, is confirming that Iran has executed a nuclear scientist who gave the U.S. intelligence about the country's contested nuclear program. The Sunday report quotes a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary, Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi, as confirming the execution of Shahram Amiri. He says Amiri "provided the enemy with vital information of the country." U.S. officials in 2010 said they paid Amiri some $5 million to defect and provide "significant" information about Iran's atomic program. But Amiri later fled the U.S. without the money.

SC

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Fred I. Nobel, a chemical engineer who held dozens of patents and worked to make electroplating processes more environmentally safe, died Aug. 3 at his Roslyn home of natural causes. He was 98.

SC

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Joe Sutter, Boeing's lead engineer on the 747 program, has died aged 95 (Tuesday 30-8-16).

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Paul Alioshin, who was a key member of the team that brought the camera to iPhones, dead at 50.

SC

http://m.sfgate.com/business/article/Paul-Alioshin-key-worker-on-Apple-s-iPhone-9237921.php

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This year's Ig Nobel Prize winners include some innovation disguised as insanity

 

The winner of the reproduction prize is already deceased - damn shame because his work in testing the effect of wearing polyester trousers on the sex life of rodents sounds like chat show gold.

 

Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37443204

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Various mathematicians died in September.

 

3 September:Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (b. 1957)

7 September: Joseph Keller (b. 1923)

17 September: Theodore Wilbur Anderson (b. 1918)

19 September: Boris Trachenbrot (b. 1921)

 

Bad deadpooling picks as they practically get no obits.

[rockhopper penguin 2,265]

Various mathematicians died in September.

 

3 September:Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (b. 1957)

7 September: Joseph Keller (b. 1923)

17 September: Theodore Wilbur Anderson (b. 1918)

19 September: Boris Trachenbrot (b. 1921)

 

Bad deadpooling picks as they practically get no obits.

Ay, it just doesn't add up.

[Razor Boy 19]

So to SUM up the DDP is totally DIVIDED about the PROBABILITY of success, I'm trying not to be too NEGATIVE here.

 

 

I'm SO sorry, I couldn't stop myself...

 

I feel like a fly by troll. I still have bad puns relating to convolution, obtuse opinions, Callus + calculated = calculus.

[rockhopper penguin 2,265]

WHAT the FUCK are you ON?

PS I want some.

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Scottish physicist David Thouless wins the Nobel Prize for Physics alongside fellow Scot John Kosterlitz and Englishman Duncan Haldane for "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter." I studied History, so I haven't a clue what that means, but it sounds impressive, and the 82 year old Thouless is now guaranteed an obit on his dying day, whenever that will be, for the rest of eternity.

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The inventor of the disposable nappy, Valerie Hunter Gordon, has died aged 94.

[The Mad Hatter 1,092]

Wiki leaks director found dead https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/590hwu/wikileaks_director_found_dead/