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- From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: How many Nobel Prizes has IBM won?
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 13:51:16 GMT
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- Ronald Jones (rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
- : There is a news item in acs.clari.nb.ibm about the importance of
- : basic research to the future of America. It states that in the
- : last 5 years IBM has won 2 Nobel Prizes. Does anyone know the
- : total.
-
- : BTW, how many has Microsoft won ;-) (Just to put things into
- : their proper perspective!)
-
- To put things back into perspective, IBM's nobel prizes have come in
- the area of electron microscopy - work mainly at their zurich labs (i
- think, may some at yorktown heights as well?) where they have been
- magnifying to an extent where they can see individual atoms and then
- have developed techniques to place individual atoms on a surface. They
- used this to create the worlds smallest logo - IBM writen in an 13x5
- array of atoms!
-
- This research is relevant to their (high performance) hardware design
- business which is not an area which microsoft are (yet) involved in
- so the comparison is not really relevant. If anything you could
- claim that Windows 3 came out of speculative work as at the stage
- where the initial work was being done on it, it probably had little
- prospects of development as MS were in their OS/2 is the future mode.
-
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