Electrical Engineering (ee) group

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1. Stav Prodromou Electrical Engineering , Birthday Celebration

   It's the !birthday of Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS (1802-1875), English scientist & developer of the Wheatstone bridge http://ur1.ca/cpnh1 !EE

   about 3 months ago from web
2. Stav Prodromou Apple , Computer Science , Electrical Engineering , THE Geek Group , Birthday Celebration

   Happy !Birthday Steve Wozniak, 62 today. Co-founder of !Apple, !cs !ee !geek

   about 9 months ago from web
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3. Stav Prodromou The Physics Group , Electrical Engineering , Birthday Celebration , The Prize

   !birthday of Dennis Gabor (1900-1979), Hungarian-British !ee !physicist. Inventor of #holography, for which he received the !Nobel Prize

   about a year ago from web
   • bananabob

     Was he married to Zsa Zsa?

     about a year ago
4. Stav Prodromou The Physics Group , Electrical Engineering , Birthday Celebration , The Prize

   It is the !birthday of John Bardeen (1908-1991), American !physicist & !EE, the only person to have won the !Nobel Prize in !Physics TWICE!

   about a year ago from web
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5. Stav Prodromou Integrated Circuits , Electrical Engineering , On this Date

   !onthisdate in 1961, Fairchild Semiconductor !EE Robert Noyce was granted a patent for an integrated circuit. !IC

   about a year ago from web
6. Stav Prodromou Electrical Engineering , Birthday Celebration

   It's !birthday of !EE Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, KCB, FRS, FRAeS (1892-1973). He invented #radar at UK's Bawdsey Research Station.

   about a year ago from web
7. Stav Prodromou Electrical Engineering , Birthday Celebration

   It is J. Presper Eckert's !birthday (1919-95). !EE, co-inventor with John Mauchly of 1st general-purpose electronic digital computer #ENIAC.

   about a year ago from web
8. Stav Prodromou Electrical Engineering , On this Date

   !onthisdate in 1903, Topsy, a circus elephant which had killed 3 men, was electrocuted by Thomas Edison's men during War of Currents !EE

   Wednesday, 04-Jan-12 18:59:49 UTC from web at San Francisco, California, United States
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     parlementum

     @stav This is bizarre in so many ways...

     Wednesday, 04-Jan-12 19:00:19 UTC
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   exador23

   hmm. bitbucket. sigh.

   Tuesday, 15-Nov-11 20:44:00 UTC from exador.status.net
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   • Stav Prodromou Electrical Engineering , Evan Prodromou

     That's the kind of great service outstanding !EE's like @exador23 are well-known for. Very #professional.

     Tuesday, 15-Nov-11 22:06:51 UTC
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     exador23

     yes. i'm sticking with y'all. statusnet has been impressively stable for years, and will be again.

     Tuesday, 15-Nov-11 22:39:25 UTC
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     Evan Prodromou Stav Prodromou

     Oh, good!

     Tuesday, 15-Nov-11 23:02:27 UTC
10. Stav Prodromou Electrical Engineering , Birthday Celebration

    Happy !Birthday Andrew Viterbi, 76 today. !ee His algorithm is used for decoding convolutionally encoded data, like your cellphone voice

    Thursday, 10-Mar-11 04:22:09 UTC from web at Los Altos Hills, California, United States
11. Stav Prodromou Electrical Engineering , On this Date

    !onthisdate in 1893, !ee Nikola Tesla gave the first public demonstration of wireless energy transmission in St. Louis, Missouri.

    Tuesday, 01-Mar-11 17:49:22 UTC from web at San Francisco, California, United States
    • Hezy Amiel

      @stav cool date. I'll celebrate it.

      Tuesday, 01-Mar-11 17:51:04 UTC
12. Stav Prodromou The Physics Group , Electrical Engineering , Birthday Celebration

    It's Harry Nyquist's !birthday (1889). He made important contributions to feedback amplifier stability & information theory. !ee !physics

    Monday, 07-Feb-11 18:43:18 UTC from web at Los Altos Hills, California, United States
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      exador23

      @stav ditto. did they have spectrum analyzers back then?

      Monday, 07-Feb-11 18:54:34 UTC
    • Stav Prodromou exador23

      @exador23 Nope. Oscilloscopes were still analog time-domain in early 60's

      Monday, 07-Feb-11 18:56:38 UTC
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      exador23

      @stav i suspected as much. I would have pursued communications electronics further were it not for all the probability voodoo involved.

      Monday, 07-Feb-11 19:00:49 UTC
13. Leif Andersen Maths , Electrical Engineering , math , Software Engineering

    Trying to decide between buying a TI 89, an NSpire, or an HP calculator. Which do you think is better? !ee !se !math !maths Thank you

    Saturday, 05-Feb-11 23:10:01 UTC from gwibber
    • flosse

      @leifandersen what about a TI V200 - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/wiki/TI_voyage_200 ?

      Saturday, 05-Feb-11 23:12:17 UTC
    • Pablo Roberto Castellanos Diéguez Maths , math

      @leifandersen A HP 50G, with a 2 GB SD card. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPGCC#HPGCC_for_the_49g.2B.2F50g !math !maths

      Saturday, 05-Feb-11 23:17:34 UTC
    • Leif Andersen flosse

      @flossy: I thought about it, and the form seemed a bit unwieldy...but I will give it another look, thanks.

      Saturday, 05-Feb-11 23:32:16 UTC
14. re pat Ubuntu users , Electrical Engineering

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=550991 #wine with #pspice !ee under !ubuntu

    Tuesday, 04-Jan-11 22:44:21 UTC from web at Germany
15. Stav Prodromou Information Tech Group , Electrical Engineering

    10 technologies to watch in 2011 http://ur1.ca/2lrxq !it !ee

    Thursday, 16-Dec-10 19:26:22 UTC from web at Los Altos, California, United States
16. Stav Prodromou Computer Science , Electrical Engineering , On this Date

    !onthisdate in 1968, Douglas Engelbart demonstrated NLS, the predecessor to today's web-browsing computers. http://ur1.ca/2jnbg !cs !ee

    Thursday, 09-Dec-10 17:53:08 UTC from web at San Francisco, California, United States
17. Stav Prodromou Electrical Engineering

    !EE Gloabal Salary Survey http://ur1.ca/2godp Mean compensation bar chart http://ur1.ca/2godv

    Monday, 29-Nov-10 21:19:52 UTC from web at San Francisco, California, United States
18. Stav Prodromou Computer Science , Electrical Engineering , Birthday Celebration

    Happy !Birthday Tom West, 71 today. Computer engineer. "The Soul of a New Machine" !ee !cs http://ur1.ca/2elyf

    Monday, 22-Nov-10 20:50:50 UTC from web at San Francisco, California, United States
19. Stav Prodromou Electrical Engineering , Birthday Celebration

    Remembering !ee supercomputer designer Seymour Cray on his !birthday (1925).

    Tuesday, 28-Sep-10 20:52:01 UTC from web at San Francisco, California, United States
20. Stav Prodromou Electrical Engineering , Birthday Celebration

    Remembering the !birthday of David Packard (1912), American !ee and businessman, founder of #HP

    Tuesday, 07-Sep-10 20:44:51 UTC from web at San Francisco, California, United States