Month: Oct 2018

TECH CELEBRITIES

  1. Alan Curtis Kay

Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. While at the ARPA project at the University of Utah in the late 1960s, he invented dynamic object-oriented programming. Working at Xerox PARC, his credo was, “the best way to predict the future is to invent it.” One of his visionary concepts was the Dynabook, a powerful and portable electronic device—the size of a three-ring notebook with a touch-sensitive liquid crystal screen and a keyboard for entering information. Laptops, notebook computers, and tablets have roots in the early concepts of the Dynabook. People needed a method for interacting with the new computer medium. To help with this, Kay and the members of his lab created graphical interfaces and the Smalltalk programming language. He is considered by some as the “father of personal computers” because he envisioned a small computing system in the 1970’s, long before notebook computers were available He is the founder-president of Viewpoints Research Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to children and the One Laptop Per Child initiative. An important contributor to the Squeak project, he is part of the ongoing research called Etoys System.

My opinion is that Alan Kay was very important in developing the Dynabook , the Smalltalk language and I like his early life because it was very interesting and what he has won a lot of prizes .

Alan Kay

2. Elon Musk

Elon Musk is one of the greatest and most prolific modern inventors and is responsible for monumental advancements in futuristic technology like renewable energy and space travel. Many of his innovations seem to be right out of a science-fiction movie, but throughout his career he has brought about huge scientific breakthroughs. After making his first fortune from the internet payment service ‘PayPal’, he invested $100 million in his space travel company, ‘SpaceX’ and began building satellites, launch vehicles and other spacecraft both for NASA and for his own company, creating new milestones with his privately funded spacecraft. Many of his revolutionary ideas and inventions focus on space travel, renewable energy, commercial electric cars and other technologies, that look to a future where fossil fuels and other resources may be in shorter supply. His futuristic and visionary ideas have won him both scientific and philanthropic recognition and awards. The pop culture sometimes portrays him as a sort of real life super hero, dedicated to providing worldwide solutions to international problems. Musk looks to the future, hopes for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and continues to plan far-reaching futuristic goals such a human colony on Mars. Scroll down to learn all about this illustrious personality.

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Talks underway to bring NASCAR racing to Gold Coast 600

A SINGLE-CAR NASCAR demonstration at this weekend’s Gold Coast 600 is a precursor to a possible appearance of the American category next year.

Supercars CEO Sean Seamer has confirmed preliminary talks with NASCAR, which follows a visit from senior NASCAR personnel to The Bend SuperSprint in August, but stressed it is only a concept.

Team Penske has supplied a 2016 Ford Fusion NASCAR for demonstrations this weekend, with Scott McLaughlin and Fabian Coulthard to get behind the wheel.

The car has sat in DJR Team Penske’s workshop museum since last November, on loan from Penske’s American base.

“It’s still very, very early days, so we don’t want to get carried away here,” Seamer stressed of the NASCAR tie-up.

“But they (NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer Steve O’Donnell and vice president of innovation and racing development John Probst) came down and met with us in August.

“We committed to having a more open and regular dialogue, which we have had.”

While NASCAR teams traditionally have a number of spare chassis for each entry, which drivers would be available to race in Australia is unclear.

The packed schedule for NASCAR’s premier Cup series includes a race at Martinsville, Virginia, on the Gold Coast event’s 2019 date, October 25-27.

The second-tier Xfinity Series, however has a weekend off, while retired NASCAR stars could also feature in a possible showcase race.

“We’ve spoken to DJR Team Penske and we’re gathering information around how and when we might be able to get cars out here,” Seamer said.

“Obviously they’ve got a lot more cars than we do and they have a rotation of vehicles, so we’ll work through that with them.

“Is it a combination of main game, Xfinity and Trucks? All that still needs to be worked through, but it’s really early days.

“The first thing was, let’s get one out, get one running this weekend, see what it looks like, what it goes like and gauge the reaction.

“If it all goes well this weekend those conversations will keep going.”

Supercars has already declared its intention to shake-up next year’s Gold Coast event with a format change, moving to a single 500km race on Sunday, subject to final agreement from government and sponsors.

A US category once underpinned the Surfers Paradise meeting, with IndyCar competing at the venue from the first event in 1991 through to 2008.

The early years also included support races for Australia’s now long-defunct NASCAR championship, and its AUSCAR development class.

Queensland’s Minister for Innovation and Tourism Industry Development, Kate Jones, joined Seamer in the pit lane to announce the NASCAR demo.

Supercars’ current deal with the Government to stage the event runs through to the end of next year.

“We’ve had very productive conversations between Supercars and Tourism Events Queensland and I give this assurance, I want to see this event continue to grow,” she said.

“As you’ve seen, there is a NASCAR behind us. Certainly, looking at new products and new races to add to the event are part of those discussions.

“The commitment I can give is we are 100% committed to growing this event into the future and this will certainly be part of our conversations going forward.

“We know that Supercars is a race product, but we also know there are many fans out there that would love to see NASCAR added.

“What we’re saying is we will continue to have those conversations to ensure we grow this event and have even more people coming to the Gold Coast to enjoy this experience.”

While the NASCAR tie-up is being explored to add further spice to the Gold Coast event, Seamer said no other categories are being courted “at this stage”.

“We’ve spent a bit of time with the guys at DTM and the CEO of the BTCC,” he said.

“We are talking to everybody and being very, very open, trying to maintain a dialogue with our peer group globally, but we haven’t entered into any other discussions (about the Gold Coast), as yet.”

Seamer, whose wife is from Michigan, will head to the US in December, where he’ll visit Team Penske’s headquarters, and again meet face-to-face with NASCAR executives.

Huawei tussles with US startup over theft of technology

Chinese telecom giant Huawei and a Silicon Valley startup are battling it out in a Texas federal court.

Earlier this week, CNEX Labs, a semiconductor and software company headquartered in San Jose, California, and its co-founder Yiren Ronnie Huang accused Huawei and its subsidiary Futurewei of stealing CNEX’s technology, according to the Wall Street Journal. A Huawei lawyer reportedly denied the claims.

This comes amid an ongoing legal battle between the parties. Huawei filed a suit against CNEX and Huang, a former employee at Huawei, of stealing its technology and demanded information about CNEX’s work. It’s also the latest drama for Huawei, which faces scrutiny from the US government as a potential security risk.

The lawsuits centered on Huang and the solid-state disk storage technology found in thumb drives, your smartphone or sleeker laptops. Compared to traditional magnetic disk drives, SSDs have no moving mechanical components, run silently and have strong resistance to physical shock, but are more costly.

Huang is a Chinese-born US citizen working in Silicon Valley. He joined Futurewei in 2011 to research technologies such as SSD and to monitor industry trends. Huang left Futurewei in 2013 and co-founded CNEX Labs, according to the lawsuit. Huawei said it found its trade secrets used in some of Huang’s patent applications, which breached Huang’s employment and confidentiality contract with Huawei and Futurewei.

In response, CNEX and Huang accused Huawei and Futurewei of trying to obtain Huang’s intellectual property by hiring him and pressuring him to sign an employment agreement with unlawful terms as a way to steal CNEX’s trade secrets in a multiyear scheme, according to the lawsuit.

CNEX and Huawei’s lawyers didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

 

https://www.cnet.com/news/huawei-tussles-with-us-startup-over-theft-of-technology/