While he wasn't the first to leap into the field, he established the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory to study cosmic rays in 1945 and organized the construction of what would ultimately be called the Lovell Telescope -- a radio telescope so large and useful that it's still the third-largest steerable example in the world, 55 years after it was first put into action.
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As with all startups, what we often see is the first big leap from obscurity.
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He admitted there was still much hard pounding ahead - but seemed convinced that the recent mildly positive financial results were the first signs that the leap onto Microsoft's platform rather than Google's was working.
But such reactionary tactics rarely succeed and often backfire these would not be the first panicked defendants to leap from the frying pan into the fryer of bankruptcy.
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Leap Motion's first product, the Leap Motion controller, will be available in early 2013 and will ship with an application store.
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Leap Motion's first product, The Leap, will be available in early 2013.
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How did you make the leap from first sip to committing to writing a book about it?
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The defense industry is buzzing about the recent elevation of women into senior leadership roles at several first-tier firms, but the biggest leap of all has gotten little attention.
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This new incarnation is actually my first two books, The Radical Leap and The Radical Edge, woven together into a new, expanded and rejuvenated work.
Back in India when I was making the leap from kindergarten to first grade, it was The Times of India and other newspapers that became my primary sources for reading, grammar, comprehension and general knowledge.
"In the quarter, spend growth continued to be healthy, and was relatively consistent with the past several quarters, despite the negative impact of having an extra billing day in the first quarter of 2012 because of leap year, " Dan Henry, American Express' chief financial officer, said during a conference call with analysts.
The Leap is entering the space first charted out in the popular mind by Microsoft with its Kinect game controller for the Xbox 360.
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He looked stupid at first, because the Nasdaq then proceeded to leap to its all-time high, before later plunging in early 2000.
The first real-world tests are now confirming that the iPhone 5 download speed is a big leap up from the iPhone 4S download speed.
To complete the first route by 2008, Minister Liu, whose ambition and flamboyance earned him the nickname Great Leap Liu, drove his crews and engineers to work in shifts around the clock, laying track, revising blueprints, and boring tunnels.
The commitment is a quantum leap over the scant aid Mr. Obama offered to congressional fundraisers in his first term.
If all goes according to plan, the Shenzhou IX space craft should be re-connected manually to Tiangong by Sunday morning, marking a giant leap for Chinese space travel and the first stages in a permanent space station within the next 8 years.
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Activision has taken a big creative leap with X-Men Destiny, the first Marvel game to introduce three brand new members of the X-Men.
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It still remains possible to jump quickly into the first division: Cisco, and perhaps Netscape, have made that leap.
With The Leap motion detector (which Newcomb was one of the first to test) and other high resolution input methods on the horizon, the performance demands on apps will only increase.
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"Avatar" is a combination of live action and photo-realistic CGI and is being touted as a huge leap forward in film technology -- likened to the first movie in sound or with Technicolor.
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He decided to leap in front of Strauss, who had the catch covered at first slip, but could only deflect the ball to the third man boundary.
Microsoft may be first to market and have a head start in the gaming and PC markets, but the Leap is 100 times more accurate, according to statements by the company.
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The first 10 minutes are NOT to be missed, my heart was pounding so hard I though it would leap out of my chest!
On June 12 South Korea's president will make the short step but giant leap from Seoul to Pyongyang, to meet the North's Kim Jong Il for the first-ever inter-Korean summit in half a century of division.
And then came the E-Bugster, quite a leap forward for VW. The company has showed off this dashing concept car several times, first in Detroit early this year and then a few months later at the Beijing Auto Show.
Olds was nominated for Stag's Leap, about the end of her marriage, while Jamie was recognised for The Overhaul, her first collection since 2004's Forward prize-winning The Tree.
Even so, it's a significant leap forward for the Qatar-based satellite channel, which gained notoriety in 2001 for being the first station to broadcast video statements made by Osama bin Laden and other leaders of al-Qaida.
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