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Alan Westin, scholar who helped shape internet privacy law, dies at 83

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Alan F. Westin, the lawyer and political scientist whose work shaped the way we define online privacy, died last week at the age of 83. As the New York Times reports, Westin had spent the past 40 years teaching at Columbia University, where he served as emeritus professor of public law and government. He is widely credited with spearheading the development of contemporary privacy law, most notably through his seminal book, Privacy and Freedom, published in 1967.

“He was the most important scholar of privacy since Louis Brandeis,” said Jeffrey Rosen, a professor of law at George Washington University, making reference to the Supreme Court Justice who, in the late 19th century, became the first to define privacy as a legal right. Westin…

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10-Foot Python Rides On Plane Wing, Dies During Flight

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WARNING: IT’S HARD TO WATCH THAT POOR BASTARD GETTING BEAT AGAINST THE PLANE DURING FLIGHT, I RECOMMEND NOT WATCHING THE VIDEO UNLESS YOU’RE ADAM OR EVE AND HAVE A SERIOUS THING AGAINST SNAKES.

This is a video of a 3-meter python trying to fly without paying from Australia to Papua New Guinea aboard a Qantas Airlines flight. Things didn’t work out too hot for him. And not just because there was no beverage service either.

The snake–an Amethystine python–didn’t survive the hard trip, killed either by the 248mph wind (400km/h) or the 10.4F (-12C) temperatures. When the plane arrived to its destination, the snake was still hanging from the wing, already dead.

Aw man, that sucks. My only hope is that he’d always dreamed of flying like a bird and died fulfilling that life-long fantasy. “Get real, GW.” I WAS TRYING TO BE POSITIVE. He died f***ing cold and alone, you happy? “Let’s go with the bird thing.” Well it’s too late now!

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‘Father of digital imaging’ Bryce Bayer dies aged 83

'Father of digital imaging' Bryce Bayer dies aged 83

Bryce Bayer, former Eastman Kodak scientist, and inventor of the Bayer Filter — found with most modern digital image sensors — has sadly recently passed. Bayer’s work with Kodak left an indelible mark on almost every digital image you see today, both figuratively, and literally. His eponymous color filter, developed in 1976, used a mosaic layout of red green and blue filters that enables light sensors to create full color images. The design imitates the way the human eye perceives color, with twice as much green as red or blue, and the resulting output is then interpreted with “demosaicing” algorithms to produce an accurate, RGB image. Bayer’s work also included significant contributions to other areas of digital photography, including storage, enhancement and printing. Bayer died on November 13th in Bath, Maine aged 83. So, next time you’re enjoying your digital memories, spare a thought for the man who helped make them all possible

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William Moggridge, portable computer and human interaction trailblazer, dies at 69

William Moggridge, portable computer and human interaction trailblazer, dies at 69

The next time you hinge open that notebook PC and smile at a feature that makes it easier to use, give a thought to Bill Moggridge, who passed away Saturday from cancer at the age of 69. The pioneering designer invented the modern clamshell design seen in all modern laptops, and is also viewed as the father of human interaction software design.

The Compass Computer he designed for Grid Systems with the screen folded over the keyboard appeared in 1981, flew on the space shuttle, and inspired virtually every notebook design since. Perhaps more importantly, when he tried to use the machine himself, Moggridge was exasperated with the difficulty and decided to take the human factor into account for software design. To that end, he engaged experts from fields like graphics design and psychology, and tried to “build empathy for the consumer into the product,” according to former partner, Professor David Kelly. The pair merged their design firms to form Ideo in 1991, and worked with clients like Apple, Microsoft and Procter & Gamble, designing products like the first Macintosh mouse and Palm V handheld along the way.

In 2010, Moggridge became the director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, and was a recipient of that institution’s lifetime achievement award. He also won the Prince Philip Designer’s Prize, the longest running award of its type in the UK, given for “a design career which has upheld the highest standards and broken new ground.” See why that’s true by going to Cooper-Hewitt’s tribute video, right after break.

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William Moggridge, portable computer and human interaction trailblazer, dies at 69 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Pioneering astronaut Neil Armstrong dies at 82

Pioneering astronaut Neil Armstrong dies at 82

It’s a story that we wished we would certainly never ever need to state. Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on Earth’s Moon, has died at the age of 82 after problems from heart surgical treatment three weeks earlier. His best achievement extremely almost talks for itself– along with assistance from fellow NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, he changed the landscape of area exploration with a set of footprints. It’s still essential to stress his accomplishments both prior to and after the historic Apollo 11 flight, however. He was instrumental to the Gemini and X-series test programs in the years prior to Apollo, and followed his moonshot with parts in teaching aerospace engineering and also looking into the Apollo 13 and Space Shuttle Challenger events. What more can we state? Although he only spent a very small section of his life past Planet’s atmosphere, he’s still commonly thought about the biggest space hero in the US, if not the globe, and motivated an entire generation of astronauts. We’ll miss him.

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Sally Ride, first American woman in space, dies at 61

Sally Ride, first American woman in space, dies at 61

It’s an unfortunate day for room travel. Sally Ride, the very first American lady to ever travel to space, has passed away at the age of 61 after a bout with pancreatic cancer. She’s best understood for breaking NASA’s gender barrier by flying on Space Shuttle Challenger on June 18th, 1983, but she spent a great deal even more of her time directing our future in space while right here on Earth– she founded NASA’s Workplace of Search and directed its early method, and she later went on to lead the California Area Institute in addition to teach physics at Stanford University. Her final years saw her set up Sally Ride Science to recommend pupils wishing to follow in her footsteps, specifically ladies. Ride blazed one of the brighter trails in innovation, and she’ll be failed to see.

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Jack Tramiel, Founder Of Commodore International, Dies At 83

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Jack Tramiel, one of the PC industry’s major pioneers, has died. He was born in 1928 and, after surviving imprisonment in Auschwitz and another concentration camp during World War II, first established the Commodore name in business in 1953. His most successful endeavor, and one of the most successful in the history of computing, was the legendary Commodore 64, one of the very first computers built, as Tramiel would later put it, “for the masses, not the classes.” He was 83.

The legacy of Commodore lives on to this day, mainly in how this breakthrough device popularized the idea of a home computer. The C64, introduced in 1982, will certainly be remembered fondly by many readers of this website, as well as the Vic-20 and other less iconic devices. After he left Commodore, Tramiel purchased Atari in 1984, though its most influential devices were already behind it. Commodore, too, would go on to smaller successes like the Amiga series.

There will soon surely be more comprehensive and relevant examinations of Tramiel’s life and work, but for now let it suffice that the man was critically important in the history of personal computing, and in a great part shaped its present and future. He is survived by his wife and three sons, and of course the indelible mark he left on the industry.



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Pinball pioneer Steve Kordek dies at 100

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Believe it or not, pinball (that most beloved of nerd pastimes) hasn’t always looked this way — a familiar field of bumpers with a pair of forward facing flippers at the bottom. That particular design originated with the 1948 title Triple Action, the work of Steve Kordek who died this week at the age of 100. Kordek is credited with a number of innovations to the analog arcade games, including multi-ball mode and drop targets. All told, the pioneer designed well over 100 different machines for Genco, Bally and Williams — some of the biggest names in the pinball pantheon — over the course of his roughly 60 year career. So, it is with a heavy heart that we bid farewell to a man that provided us with hours of entertainment and cost us plenty of quarters.

Pinball pioneer Steve Kordek dies at 100 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Charles Walton, father of RFID technology, dies at 89

We have some somber news to bring you today: Charles Walton, the man who pioneered the rise of RFID technology, has died at the age of 89. The Cornell-educated entrepreneur garnered more than 50 patents over the course of his career, but it only took one to cement his legacy — a 1973 patent for a “Portable radio frequency emitting identifier.” It may not have been the first RFID-related invention, but Walton’s breakthrough would prove to be foundational, spawning many similar patents, including ten from the creator himself. It all began at the Army Signal Corps, where Walton worked after studying electrical engineering at Cornell and earning a Master’s degrees in electrical engineering and economics of engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology. In 1960, he accepted a position at IBM, where he conducted research on disc drives before founding his own company, Proximity Devices, in 1970.

It was at Proximity where many of Walton’s patents came to life, including his initial design, which he developed alongside the Schlage lock company and eventually licensed to other firms, as well. He would go on to earn millions from his technology, though as Venture Beat points out, he may have been a bit too far ahead of the curve. Many of Walton’s patents expired by the time RFID devices caught on with big spenders like the Department of Defense and Wal-Mart, thereby excluding him from any subsequent windfall. But that didn’t seem to bother him too much, as evidenced in a 2004 interview with Venture Beat: “I feel good about it and gratified I could make a contribution.”

Charles Walton, father of RFID technology, dies at 89 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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