Apple Newton - Apple Newton The Newton was an early personal digital assistant (PDA) developed by Apple Computer and sold from 1993 to 1998. It was based on the ARM processor, and featured handwriting recognition. Officially the term refers to the operating system that ran the Apple MessagePad along with similar products from Radio Shack and other manufacturers. It was unsuccessful in the marketplace: critics pointed at its high price and complicated desktop connectivity, both problems solved soon after with the Palm Pilot. The marketing campaign trumpeted the handwriting recognition, which critics considered poor in the initial versions. The original handwriting recognition was actually very sophisticated (learning the user's handwriting instead of forcing the user to learn a new handwriting system, and using a database of known words to.
Isaac Newton (in-depth biography) - Isaac Newton (in-depth biography) The following article is an in-depth biography of Isaac Newton. See the talk page for information on sources and editing style. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early life and achievements 1.1 Birth and education 1.2 Academic Career 1.3 The Composition of White Light 1.4 Conflict over oratorship elections 1.5 Newton's poverty 1.6 Universal Law of Gravitation 2 Authoring Principia 2.7 Newton's major work—Principia Mathematica 2.8 Conflict between the University and James II 2.9 Illness in 1693 2.10 Initial Election to Parliament 3 Later life -- the Mint and the Royal Society 3.11 Appointment to the Mint 3.12 Fluxions 3.13 Bernoulli's Mathematical Challenge 3.14 End of the Professorship and Presidency of the Society 3.15 Second Edition of the Principia 3.16 The Longitude Problem Early.
Fig Newton - Fig Newton The Fig Newton is a soft, cake-like cookie filled with fig jam. Fig Newtons was created in 1891 by the Kennedy Biscuit Company, a Massachusetts-based bakery. The company named many of their products after surrounding communities. The Fig Newton was named after nearby Newton, Massachusetts. The Kennedy Biscuit Company merged with other regional bakeries in 1898 to form the National Biscuit Company, which later became Nabisco. The cookie is now produced by Nabisco. The machine that makes the cookie consists of a funnel within a funnel. The inner funnel contains the filling, and the outer funnel contains the dough. The machine expresses a long length of filled cookie, which is then baked, cut into smaller pieces, and packaged. Nabisco makes several varieties of the Newton,.
Newton (disambiguation) - Newton (disambiguation) Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 People 2 Places 3 Miscellaneous People Newton was the name of some famous people: Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party Sir Isaac Newton, the English scientist (laws of motion, universal gravitation, optics, calculus) John Newton, British slave trader-turned-hymnwriter and anti-slavery campaigner Places Newton is also the name of several places in the United States of America: Newton, Alabama Newton, Illinois Newton, Iowa Newton, Kansas Newton, Massachusetts Newton, Mississippi Newton, New Hampshire Newton, New Jersey Newton, North Carolina Newton, Texas Newton, Wisconsin Newton Township, Michigan These should be distinguished from places named Newtown. There are also places with Newton as part of their name, such as: Newton Falls, Ohio Newton Grove, North Carolina Newtonville, New Jersey Miscellaneous.
NewtonScript programming language - prototype based programming language created to write programs for the Apple Newton. It is heavily influenced by the Self computer language, but extended to be more suited to the personal digital assistant's needs. History Traditional computers, at least in the desktop role, have two modes; "on" and "off". When moving from one mode to the other the state of the machine is lost from memory, and requires a sometimes lengthy "boot" process to return the machine to the "on" state. This does not suffice for a PDA type device where the user expects the machine to be available almost instantly for taking down quick notes. Yet a machine can not be left "on" for any length of time either, as this would drain the battery too much to make it useful.
Newton - Newton This article is about the SI unit of force. For other uses see Newton (disambiguation) In physics, a derived SI unit, the newton (symbol: N) is the unit of force, named for Sir Isaac Newton in recognition of his work on classical mechanics. It was adopted by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in 1960. It is defined as the amount of force required to accelerate a one-kilogram mass at a rate of one meter per second per second. Its dimensions in SI base units are m·kg·s-2. It is also the unit of weight, as weight is the force acting between two objects due to gravity. A mass of one kilogram near the Earth's surface has a weight of approximately 9.81 newtons, although.
Knowledge navigator - The Knowledge Navigator is a concept described by former Apple Computer CEO John Sculley in his 1987 book, Odyssey. It describes a device which can access a large networked database of hypertext information, and use intelligent agents to assist searching for information. Apple produced several concept videos showcasing the idea, with a tablet style computer and an animated "butler" as the intelligent agent. In one a university professor returns home and turns on his computer, in the form of a tablet the size of a large-format book, which informs him that he has several calls waiting. He ignores most of these (from his mother) and instead uses the system to compile data for a talk on global warming. While he is doing this, the computer informs him that a colleague is.
Joule - kg·m2·s-2 = 1 N·m = 1 W·s. It is named in honour of the physicist James Prescott Joule. One joule is the work required to exert a force of one newton for a distance of one metre, so the same quantity may be referred to as a newton metre. However, to avoid confusion the newton metre is usually used as a measure of torque, not energy. Another way of visualizing the joule is the work required to lift a mass of 102 g (e.g. a small apple) for one metre under the earth's gravity. One joule is also the work done to produce power of one watt for one second, such as when somebody takes one second to lift the small apple mentioned above through one metre under the earth's gravity..
John Sculley - Pepsi Cola USA until he was named president and CEO of Apple Computer on April 8, 1983. In what is now legend, then chairman Steve Jobs wooed Sculley from Pepsi by asking him, "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?" In 1985, Sculley would push Jobs out of the company. Sculley coined the term personal digital assistant referring to the Apple Newton. Sculley made many famous predictions in a Playboy interview in 1987. Some were foolish such as that the Soviet Union would land a man on Mars within the next 20 years. However other predictions rang true such as the claim that optical storage media (CD-ROM) would revolutionize the use of personal computers, and his idea.
IPod - iPod is a hard-drive-based music player from Apple Computer that can play MP3s, WAV, AAC and AIFF files. In addition to playing music, iPods may be used as an external hard drive. iPods are distinguished by their small size, simple user interface based on a central scroll wheel, and fast FireWire connection capable of 400 Mbit/s data transfers. As of January 2004, the iPod was the most popular digital music player in the United States, having over 50% of the market. First announced in October 2001, the iPod was originally available with a 5GB hard drive. A 10GB version was announced in March 2002, and a 20GB version in July. On April 28, 2003, Steve Jobs introduced an "ultrathin" iPod series, which introduced a non-mechanical touch-sensitive scroll wheel and other upgrades..
Ira Flatow - popular Talk of the Nation - Science Friday. He is probably best known for hosting Newton's Apple which was a Emmy Award-winning television science program for children and young adults. He was born in New York, New York and his first experience with a television news program was in his high school. In 1967, however, Flatow entered college to pursue an engineering degree. He began working in radio at WBFO, in Buffalo, New York and his first news stories covered antiwar demonstrations and riots. Flatow's first science stories were created in 1970 during the first Earth Day. Years later he be became the news director of WBFO. In 1971 he was hired by the newly-formed National Public Radio in Washington, DC. There he covered the environment, health and medicine news, and.
Handwriting recognition - a software application which interprets the movements of the stylus across the writing surface, translating the resulting curves into digital text. Handwriting recognition is commonly used as an input method for PDAss. The first PDA to provide written input was the Apple Newton, which exposed the public to the advantage of a streamlined user interface. However, the device was not a commercial success, owing to the unreliability of the software, which tried to learn a user's writing patterns. Palm later launched a successful series of PDAss based on the Graffiti® recognition system. Graffiti improved usability by defining a set of pen strokes for each character. This narrowed the possibility for erroneous input, although memorization of the stroke patterns did increase the learning curve. In recent years, several attempts were made to.
Go Corporation - founders were Robert Carr and Jerry Kaplan, who subsequently chronicled the history of the company in the book Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure Story (ISBN 0735101418). See also: Apple Newton.
Gravity - in the universe. It is the force of gravity which is responsible for holding objects onto the surface of planets and, with Newton's law of inertia is responsible for keeping objects in orbit around one another. "Gravity is the force that pulls you down." -- Merlin in Disney's The Sword in the Stone Merlin was right, of course, but gravity does much more than just hold you in your chair. It was the genius of Isaac Newton to recognize that. Newton recalled in a late memoir that while he was trying to figure out what kept the Moon in the sky, he saw an apple fall to the ground in his orchard, and he realized that the Moon was not suspended in the sky, but continuously falling, like a cannon ball.
FTL Games - best sellers and some even set new standards for games of their genre. SunDog Holder and Webster co-designed FTL's first game, SunDog: Frozen Legacy, a space trading game. It was released first for the Apple II in March 1984. Webster did most of the programming for the Apple II version, but resigned from FTL after the release of version 2.0 due to programming burn out. SunDog was later released for the Atari ST in 1986 and became that system's best selling software for that year and garnered lavish critical acclaim. Doug Bell, Andy Jaros and Mike Newton ported the game to the Atari ST. Oids Oids, an arcade game, was one of FTL's minor releases. It received little attention as it was released only on one platform, the Apple Macintosh. It.
EO - the AT&T EO Personal Communicator it was more similar to a large personal digital assistant, and competed against the Apple Newton. The unit was produced in conjunction with the Matsushita, Olivetti and Marubeni corporations. Among the EO customers AT&T claimed were: The New York Stock Exchange, Andersen Consulting, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, FD Titus & Sons and Woolworths. EO, Inc., 52 percent owned by AT&T, shut down operations on July 29, 1994 after failing to secure the funding to continue. Hardware specifics Two models, the Communicator 440 and 880 were produced and measured about the size of a clipboard. Both were powered by the AT&T 92K Hobbit chip, created by AT&T specifically for PDAs. They also contained a host of I/O ports - modem, parallel, serial, VGA out and SCSI. Perhaps the.
Dylan programming language - a dynamic programming language created by a group within Apple Computer. It was originally intended for use with Apple's Newton computer but their implementation did not reach sufficient maturity to ship it as a product (though it did ship as a technology demonstration). However, the language design was intriguing enough that at least one company and a university implemented compilers and development environments for Dylan that were quite good. The Dylan language is notable for being purely object-oriented: every value is an object. http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Dylan/?tc=1.
1 E0 J - British thermal units 0.738 foot pounds force 1 Ws (Watt second) 1 Nm (Newton metre) 23.7 foot poundals 10,000,000 ergs 1J - The energy required to lift a small apple (102 g) one metre 4.184 J -- 1 thermochemical calorie 4.186 J -- 1 International Table calorie Stronger energies.
1971 in music - Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer Quite Fire - Roberta Flack Maggot Brain - Funkadelic What's Going On - Marvin Gaye All Things Must Pass - George Harrison Shaft - Isaac Hayes Aqualung - Jethro Tull 11-17-70 - Elton John Madman Across the Water - Elton John Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John A Nod is as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse - The Faces Pearl - Janis Joplin Live in Cook County Jail - B.B. King Tapestry - Carole King Four Symbols - Led Zeppelin Ram - Paul McCartney Wild Life - Paul McCartney & Wings American Pie - Don McLean Blue - Joni Mitchell If Not for You - Olivia Newton-John Nilsson Schmilsson - Harry Nilsson Meddle - Pink Floyd John Prine - John Prine There's a.
1978 in music - The Beatles spoof, "The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash" airs on television. The Eagles' 5-star record, "Hotel California" was nominated for a Grammy award Steve Martin performs the original "King Tut" on Saturday Night Live. The song is later released as a single and becomes a hit for the comedian. Van Halen's musical career begins The Beastie Boys form The Pretenders form Social Distortion form Albums released Kaya - Bob Marley and the Wailers Top hits on record "A Little More Love" - Olivia Newton-John "Bad Boy" - Ringo Starr "Birdland" - Weather Report "Cocain" - Eric Clapton "Copacabana (At the Copa)" - Barry Manilow "Ego" - Elton John "Gold Dust Woman" - Fleetwood Mac "Grease" - Frankie Valli "Hopelessly Devoted to You" - Olivia Newton-John "Hot Child In.
