On May 6th, 1949 EDSAC (or Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) ran its first programs, calculating a table of squares and generating a list of prime numbers.
Last year, PTC supported over 100 teams around the world, even helping to start up a few new FIRST programs in countries like China and Romania from scratch.
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My entrepreneurial and corporate venturing background includes having responsibility for one of the first smartphone development programs, founding one of the first mobile marketing companies, co-founding the Mobile Marketing Association, and starting Africa's first mobile commerce firm.
First, other programs are needed to make Arrow effective as an "upper-tier" defense system.
But it was hard to stop checking my more familiar email and social-network programs first.
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"When we first started these programs, these guys weren't getting paid a dime, " said Col.
In addition to the mortgage lending program, Cloherty launched one of the first auto leasing programs in the country.
Duke University is setting up a campus in Kunshan, near Shanghai, and its Fuqua School of Business is slated to be the first to offer programs there.
"It is the beginning of a homeland defense that is going to last, " said the president, who added that the Federal Emergency Management Agency under Director Joe Allbaugh would oversee the first-responder programs.
Television will see the most immediate impact of a strike, with late night programs hit first.
When inevitable cuts come, the first to go are programs not required by law.
Despite the fact that "half the businesses didn't have computers yet, " he sold 100 programs his first year.
In Florida, home of the biggest--and one of the first--prepaid programs, legislators say they might drop the program altogether.
In 1962, Telstar, the first television telecommunications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, making possible the first relaying of television programs across the Atlantic.
These are not the first bike-sharing programs in the United States.
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At first, loyalty card programs actually leveled the playing field, with everyone who was willing to sign up receiving the same discounts, but once again, price discrimination finds a way to benefit those with more money.
The Xbox 360, along with Akimbo, will be among the first mass-market devices able to download high def television programs -- and the first we know of in the states able to download HD movies.
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When you travel regularly, frequent flyer programs are the first and most important item to sort out.
The necessity of reform will force us to ask why we have these programs in the first place.
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Some may ask why we allow foreign students to be part of our graduate programs in the first place.
Thus was born one of the first successful digital affiliate marketing programs.
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In a tough economy, the first cuts happen within diversity programs.
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"I started one of the country's first hip-hop therapy programs, " said Alvarez, who co-founded Beats Rhymes and Life, a nonprofit that provides free counseling sessions to Bay Area youth.
Most state unemployment insurance programs cover the first 26 weeks, or six months, of unemployment, normally enough time for the vast majority of unemployed to find new work.
The first place to look for programs to nix is the system tray, the row of tiny icons next to Windows' clock in the bottom-right of the Taskbar.
We also have implemented new accountability measures, posting details of error rates at PaymentAccuracy.gov, and for the first time adding sanctions for programs that fail to meet an increasingly rigorous threshold for error.
They were not ideologues but somehow we got balanced budgets, enough money for social programs, the first Civil Rights Act in nearly 100 years, the desegregation of public schools, and a successful space program.
More than 150 carriers are currently completing technical acceptance programs for the first BlackBerry 10 products, and beta trials of BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 are underway at more than 120 enterprises including 64 Fortune 500 companies.
From there, it was a short hop to start a course that builds on those successes while simultaneously aiming to eliminate the social problems that drive women out of traditional computer science programs in the first place.
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