Ken Knowlton, Father of Computer Art and Animation, Dies at 91

Dr. Knowlton stayed at Bell Labs until 1982, experimenting with everything from computer-generated music to technologies that allow deaf people to read sign language over the phone. He later joined Wang Laboratories where, in the late 1980s, he helped develop a personal computer that allowed users to annotate documents with synchronized voice messages and stylus […]

Breakthrough in Feminist Sociology, Dorothy E. Smith, Dies at 95

Dr. As Smith first applied her approach as a middle-class, educated, heterosexual mother and wrote in feminist terms, she saw it as a tool available to anyone marginalized by traditional sociology’s dominant forms of research. And indeed, later scholars used his methodology to study different things. gay men’s lives and The way police treat black […]

Space Endurance Record-breaking Valery Ryumin dies at 82

Cosmonaut Valery Ryumin, a Soviet tank commander who spent more than a year in space breaking endurance records and then embarked on another flight 18 years later, this time on a US space shuttle, died Monday. He was 82 years old. The Russian federal space company Roscosmos announced his death. The company’s director, Dmitry Rogozin, […]

Dave Smith, whose synthesizers shaped electronic music, dies at 72

Unlike a piano or organ, early synthesizers such as the Moog and ARP could only produce one note at a time. Shaping a particular tone involved adjusting multiple knobs, switches, or dials, and trying to reproduce that tone later meant typing in all the settings and hoping for similar results next time. Prophet-5 co-designed by […]

Inventor of the Life-Saving Heart Device, Dr. Morton Mower dies at 89

Morton Mower, an enterprising cardiologist who helped invent an implantable defibrillator that saved many lives by returning potentially fatal irregular heart rhythms to normal with an electric shock, died April 25 in Denver. He was 89 years old. His son, Mark, said the cause was cancer. Dr. mowing and Dr. Michel MirowskiA colleague of mine […]

Inventor of the Life-Saving Heart Device, Dr. Morton Mower dies at 89

Morton Mower, an enterprising cardiologist who helped invent an implantable defibrillator that saved many lives by returning potentially fatal irregular heart rhythms to normal with an electric shock, died April 25 in Denver. He was 89 years old. His son, Mark, said the cause was cancer. Dr. mowing and Dr. Michel MirowskiA colleague of mine […]

Sheldon Krimsky, Who Warned Against Snow Motivation in Science, Dies at 80

Leading environmental ethics scholar Sheldon Krimsky, who has explored issues between science, ethics and biotechnology, and warned of the dangers of private companies that undertake and influence academic research, died April 23 in Cambridge, Mass. He was 80 years old. His family said he was in the hospital for tests when he died and they […]

Fuad El-Hibri, Leader of a Troubled Vaccine Manufacturer, dies at 64

Fuad Al-Hibri, whose biotech company won billions of dollars in government contracts to produce a vaccine against anthrax but stumbled in 2021 after being hired to produce Covid vaccines, was forced to discard the equivalent of 75 million contaminated doses, died. April 23, at her home in Potomac, Md. He was 64 years old. His […]

Fuad El-Hibri, Leader of a Troubled Vaccine Manufacturer, dies at 64

“The cross-contamination thing is unacceptable,” he said, “period.” About 60 million additional doses were found to be contaminated in June. Fuad El-Hibri was born on March 2, 1958 in Hildesheim, Germany, as the son of housewife Elizabeth (Trunk) El-Hibri and engineer and entrepreneur İbrahim El-Hibri. He grew up in Lebanon and Germany and graduated from […]

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