And not even an honorable mention on Hedy Lamarr? It seems that Hedy's invention in 1942 has more to do with the future of networking today, then any other technology I have seen of late. Besides the fact that she was honored as the most beautiful woman of the world and graced the cover of nearly every Corel product sold for the last 10 years, she was a forward thinker and patriot in the fight against the Nazis.
She was the coinventor of today's modern wireless network technologies, namely frequency hopping spread spectrum. She also gave up all patent rights to the invention to the US government (who quickly classified her work and patent, since the technology did not yet exist to make it work). Once Dr. William Shockley invented the transistor in 1948, the technology could come alive. It was first used for radio communications in the early 1960s on American warships during the Cuban missile crisis . The technology of FHSS was not available to US consumers until the early 1980s, when it was declassified in a limited fashion by both DoD and NSA (output power had to be less than 1W total radiated power). Still, this technology is delivering high speed wireless at very extended distances. v/r, Paul Werner p.s., "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold" -Led Z, Stairway to Heaven > May I please add Claude Shannon to your list. He's my hero. > > And don't forget what Bilbo Baggins said about Aragorn, son of Arathorn: > > "All that's gold doesn't glitter." > > I think this would apply to the discussion about Paul (the moderator for > > this group). He's gold in my book even if he doesn't glitter! ;-) Also, > I > would like to mention that John Chambers is a humble man, not motivated > by > greed or money. I think he's motivated mostly by "the conquest." > > In case you're wondering, the more famous quote "All that glitters isn't > > gold" comes from Merchant of Venice, although Shakespeare was not the > first > person to say it. Aristotle and Chaucer also said it. It's been a common > > proverb since Aristotle's time. It seems to be something that every > generation has to learn. > > Back to work now.... ;-) > > Priscilla ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=26343&t=25805 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
