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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, ENIAC's principal creators, the late John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, held the unchallenged title of inventors of the modern computer--until an obscure physicist named John Atanasoff came forth to dispute their claims. In the late 1930s, while teaching at Iowa State College, he and a graduate student named Clifford Bell began building a device that would allow them to solve large linear algebraic equations. Their machine, later called ABC (for Atanasoff Berry Computer), incorporated a number of novel features, including the separation of data processing from memory, and relied on binary numbers instead of ENIAC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Built The First Computer? | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...more, he was actually born in a log cabin, rode to high school on horseback and, without benefit of a university degree (indeed, at age 14), conceived the idea of electronic television--the moment of inspiration coming, according to legend, while he was tilling a potato field back and forth with a horse-drawn harrow and realized that an electron beam could scan images the same way, line by line, just as you read a book. To cap it off, he spent much of his adult life in a struggle with one of America's largest and most powerful corporations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electrical Engineer PHILO FARNSWORTH | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Then both teams settled down for a period of physical, back-and-forth action as Stone began a three-line rotation she used for the entire game. The Crimson killed two penalties, and Springer made a clutch save with 3.3 seconds left in the period when the Big Green pulled Cahill and sent six skaters against Harvard's man-down unit...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: 28 And Counting! | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...lacrosse team battled in a back and forth game for sixty minutes but fell just short of a win, losing to the Hobart Statesmen 7-6 in the season's home opener...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Lax Loses a Close One | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...this interest in the puzzling role literature plays in our lives that led Professor Chaouli to enter the debate over the crisis in literature. In an article published recently in the Times Literary Supplement, he puts forth the idea that this so-called crisis is actually what makes literature worth studying...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lit. Professor Confronts, Resolves Identity Crisis in Literary Studies | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

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