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...Ferranti-Dege, the Mass. Ave. camera store, employee training is so lengthy and detailed that it's just not worth it to invest in employees who aren't going to utilize it for more than a couple of months, says Manager Tina Tietz...
Raised in London in the 1960s, Berners-Lee was the quintessential child of the computer age. His parents met while working on the Ferranti Mark I, the first computer sold commercially. They taught him to think unconventionally; he'd play games over the breakfast table with imaginary numbers (what's the square root of minus 4?). He made pretend computers out of cardboard boxes and five-hole paper tape and fell in love with electronics. Later, at Oxford, he built his own working electronic computer out of spare parts and a TV set. He also studied physics, which he thought...
...inventors of feminism, but we are its first lifelong beneficiaries, eager and able to enter whatever profession we contemplated. So we define a large part of ourselves by our job titles, and then change the jobs and the titles along the way. Margot Eberman de Ferranti turned 50 and resigned from the civil division at the Justice Department to become a mediator in local courts. Economist Karen Hagstrom Johnson says, "I still have the same job at the Federal Reserve Board. I think that I have fallen into the trap of letting my work expand to fit the available time...
Berners-Lee comes by his vocation naturally. His parents helped design the world's first commercially available computer, the Ferranti Mark I. "The family level of excitement about mathematics was high," he says, recalling the breakfast-table teasing of his younger brother, then in primary school, who was having trouble fathoming the square root of negative four...
...more than just instruction in how to land a devastating left hook. Tommy is a living, breathing, talking, boxing encyclopedia. And when he stands in his boxing shorts, recounting the gory details of how he was "robbed" in a 1936 Madison Square Garden bout at the gloves of Joe Ferranti, it's hard not to get excited...