Mr Sale is best known for the mammoth project that resulted in the re-creation of the Colossus computer.
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Thirty years ago Alan Kay oversaw the creation of many of the personal computer's clever innovations, among them windows, point-and-click file opening and networks.
At the recent World Economic Conference in Davos, Google Chief Executive EricSchmidtEric Schmidt said mobile Internet services have the potential to spark a "huge revolution" in the coming year, comparable to the "re-creation of the Internet" and the personal computer.
Prof Nicolelis said the experiments could lead to the creation of a biological computer -- or "brain-net" -- linking multiple brains.
Although the creation of the NHTCU marks a significant increase in the number of British police officers trained to tackle computer crime, experts say it is still not enough.
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Asterisk could lead to the creation of thousands of businesses, as people begin thinking about the phone the same way they saw the personal computer in 1980, as a platform on which to build.
Finally, there was the creation of the Internet in the 1980s (its origins could be traced to earlier computer networks formed by the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation), and its explosive growth throughout the 1990s.
It culminated in the last decades of his life in a forward-thinking creation he called the Global Jukebox Project, an early computer database that organized and compared various forms based on geography, style, and subsistence patterns.
The committee's report, A Fresh Start For Cancer, suggests the creation of a "virtual" National Cancer Institute, which will link all the smaller centres in Britain by computer.
"By linking up computer technology with the science of olfaction, we can speed up the creation of new compounds, and it can take us into areas we've never dreamed of, " says Rahman Ansari, vice president of technical affairs at Quest International, a unit of British chemical giant ICI that developed Este Lauder's blockbuster Tommy Girl.
The Initiative, a 10-year plan to provide greater work-related flexibility to women and men in research careers, is run by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which is the leading source of Federal grants for many fields that are crucial to US technology development and job creation, including computer science, mathematics, and the social sciences.
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