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    Sir Charles Kao Kuen (simplified Chinese: 高锟; traditional Chinese: 高錕; pinyin: Gāo Kūn) GBM KBE FRS FREng (November 4, 1933 – September 23, 2018) was...
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    length of the fiber. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Charles K. Kao for his theoretical work on the single-mode optical fiber. The standards...
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  • Literature and Culture: Akira Kurosawa (Japan) Science and Technology: Charles K. Kao (China/UK/USA) Moral and Spiritual Leadership: Mahatma Gandhi (India)...
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  • or Medicine, 2015 Mo Yan, Literature, 2012 Liu Xiaobo, Peace, 2010 Charles K. Kao*, Physics, 2009 Gao Xingjian*, Literature, 2000 Daniel C. Tsui*, Physics...
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  • Hopkins Gardiner Greene Hubbard Internet pioneers Bob Kahn Dawon Kahng Charles K. Kao Narinder Singh Kapany Hedy Lamarr Innocenzo Manzetti Guglielmo Marconi...
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    to be supervised by someone with an appropriate security clearance. Charles K. Kao and George A. Hockham of the British company Standard Telephones and...
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  • "Financial and Operational Trends" (PDF). AT&T. Retrieved 28 June 2024. "Form 10-K for Comcast Corp filed 01/31/2024". Comcast. Retrieved 28 June 2024. "Deutsche...
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  • Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee, Yuan T. Lee, Daniel C. Tsui, Roger Y. Tsien and Charles K. Kao (known as the "Godfather of Broadband" and "Father of Fiber Optics");...
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    transmissions. In 1837, the British inventors William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone obtained a patent for the first commercially viable telegraph...
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    contributed to the development of optical fiber communications. In 1966 Charles K. Kao and George Hockham at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories showed...
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  • Hopkins Gardiner Greene Hubbard Internet pioneers Bob Kahn Dawon Kahng Charles K. Kao Narinder Singh Kapany Hedy Lamarr Innocenzo Manzetti Guglielmo Marconi...
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    mobile internet with a theoretical maximum transfer speed of 384 kbit/s (48 kB/s). In 2001, the third-generation (3G) was launched in Japan by NTT DoCoMo...
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    This allows long distances to be spanned with few repeaters. In 1966 Charles K. Kao and George Hockham proposed optical fibers at STC Laboratories (STL)...
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    design. In February 1966, Bob Taylor successfully lobbied ARPA's Director Charles M. Herzfeld to fund a network project. Herzfeld redirected funds in the...
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    outside North America, local calls are not flat-rated or "free" by default. Charles Williams, Jr., owned a Boston shop where Bell and Watson made experiments...
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  • Britain), William Stanley Jevons (an early pioneer of modern economics), Charles K. Kao ("Godfather of broadband"), Jomo Kenyatta (considered the "Founding...
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    technology 1997: Vladimir Haensel for his invention of "platforming" 1999: Charles K. Kao, Robert D. Maurer, and John B. MacChesney for the development of fiber...
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  • Boston: Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 0-321-12742-0. [1]F. Buschmann, K. Henney, and D. C. Schmidt, Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume...
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    Carlson 2013, pp. 290–301. Gillispie, Charles Coulston, "Dictionary of Scientific Biography;" Tesla, Nikola. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. SECOR, H...
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    decade, ranging from 0.0064 kilowatt hours per gigabyte transferred (kWh/GB) to 136 kWh/GB. The researchers attributed these discrepancies mainly to the...
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  • Hopkins Gardiner Greene Hubbard Internet pioneers Bob Kahn Dawon Kahng Charles K. Kao Narinder Singh Kapany Hedy Lamarr Innocenzo Manzetti Guglielmo Marconi...
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  • opened in September 2014 as Sir Charles Kao UTC. It was named after the Nobel Prize winning scientist Charles K. Kao who worked and studied at Standard...
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  • Hopkins Gardiner Greene Hubbard Internet pioneers Bob Kahn Dawon Kahng Charles K. Kao Narinder Singh Kapany Hedy Lamarr Innocenzo Manzetti Guglielmo Marconi...
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