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While studying at the Soviet Union's Academy of Science in 1984, the 29-year-old Pajitnov designed a bare-bones version of the game in his free time for the Elektronika 60, a Soviet terminal computer. The original version, launched on June 6, 1984, was only 10 levels long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25 Years of Tetris: From Russia With Fun! | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

On a typical day in his Kirkland suite, Michael “Mikey” J. Friedman ’11 could be found singing “Hakuna Matata,” playing with the protein modeling computer program Pymol, or coming up with some harebrained scheme to entertain...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Michael J. Friedman '11 | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

Following an investigation of the A330's uncommanded dive, Australian aviation officials, assisted by U.S. and French authorities, blamed a pair of simultaneous failures for the near disaster. The plane has three air data inertial reference units (ADIRUs), which are designed to help the plane's flight-control computer fly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Past Flight May Offer Clues to Air France 447 | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

But that's not what happened when one of them went awry on Oct. 7 and began sending erroneous data spikes on the plane's angle of attack (AOA) - the angle between its wings and the air flowing over them - to the flight-control computer. "For some reason, the damn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Past Flight May Offer Clues to Air France 447 | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

Aviation authorities around the world have ordered inspections and procedures to try to eliminate the problem. "In these fly-by-wire systems, one never really knows if one has checked out all possible combinations of events to make sure that the computer properly reacts," Weber says of modern flight control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Past Flight May Offer Clues to Air France 447 | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

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