This comprised one city each on the islands of Chios and Samos and ten on the mainland of Asia Minor opposite, namely, Phocaea, Clazomenae, Erythrae, Teos, Lebedus, Colophon, Ephesus, Priene, Myus, and Miletus.

WSJ: 'Aladdin's Lamp'

The confederation, also known as the Dodecapolis, had its common meeting place at the Panionium, on the mainland opposite Samos.

WSJ: 'Aladdin's Lamp'

Four months after he joined Toshiba in 1971, Masuoka, who had just received a doctorate from Tohoku University, invented a type of memory known as SAMOS. After five years at Toshiba, he invented another type and was moved to the semiconductor production division, where he developed a 1-megabit DRAM.

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