Achievements Past & Present, October 2009 Part II

Forty years ago the first Internet message was transmitted on the UCLA campus. On October 29, 1969, Leonard Kleinrock, MA B ’62, helped transmit the lettters ‘L’ and ‘O’ before the receiving computer crashed.

Kleinrock was awarded the National Medal of Science last year for his contributions to the creation of the Internet, and more specifically developing the “method of breaking messages into ‘packets’ and shipping them across networks.”
Read USA Today’s recap

Also read Popular Science’s article commemorating the 40th birthday of the Internet and recalling five important milestones of the Internet.

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The Academy of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineers at Missouri S&T recently inducted seven professionals.
Read news release

Two of the inductees are Tau Bates:

Dr. Darrell W. Pepper (NV B ’68) – is a professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and founded the Nevada Center for Advanced Computation Methods and Nevada Energy and Environmental Systems.

Chris A. Thomason (MO B ’85) – is senior manager of vehicle architecture at General Motors, responsible for GM’s future product artchitectures.

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A Florida based biotech company, Sharklet Technologies, has created a “surface topography” like that of a shark’s rippled skin.

The film is “covered with microscopic diamond-shaped bumps to keep dangerous microorganisms form establishing colonies large enough to infect humans.”

Look for the new technology at hospitals, restaurant bathroom door handles, and other high-touch surfaces, soon.
Read article for more

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