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Philip Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria on 23 August 1954. [9] He was raised in Onitsha in the South Eastern part of Nigeria. His early schooling was suspended in 1967 as a result of the Nigerian Civil War.
Super Soaker, Nerf Blaster. Spouse. Linda Moore. Children. 4. Lonnie George Johnson (born October 6, 1949) is an American inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur, best known for inventing the bestselling Super Soaker water gun in 1989. He was formerly employed at the U.S. Air Force and NASA, where he worked at the Jet Propulsion ...
1855–1905. Inventor. Folding "cabinet-bed", forerunner of the Murphy bed; first African-American woman to receive a patent in the United States. [ 81][ 82][ 83] Grant, George F. 1846–1910. Dentist, professor. The first African-American professor at Harvard, Boston dentist, and inventor of a wooden golf tee .
Internet Hall of Fame 2013 (posthumously) Website. aaronsw.com. Aaron Hillel Swartz ( / ˈɛ ( ə).rən hɪ.ˈlɛl ˈswɔːrts /; November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013), also known as AaronSw, was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist.
Marian Rogers Croak is a Vice President of Engineering at Google. She was previously the Senior Vice President of Research and Development at AT&T. [ 1] She holds more than 200 patents. [ 2] She was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 2013. [ 2] In 2022, Croak was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame ...
Berners-Lee was born in London on 8 June 1955, [ 24] the son of mathematicians and computer scientists Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017) and Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019). His parents were both from Birmingham and worked on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially-built computer.
MAC Eminent Engineer. Fellow National Academy of Inventors. Thomas Owusu Mensah (1950 – 27 March 2024) was a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer and inventor who contributed to the development of fiber optic manufacturing and nanotechnology. [ 2] He had 14 patents, and was inducted into the US National Academy of Inventors in 2015. [ 3]
The dark web, also known as darknet websites, are accessible only through networks such as Tor ("The Onion Routing" project) that are created specifically for the dark web. [ 12][ 15] Tor browser and Tor-accessible sites are widely used among the darknet users and can be identified by the domain ".onion". [ 16]