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  2. Ray Tomlinson - Wikipedia

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    To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the user name from the name of their machine, a scheme which has been used in email addresses ever since. [9] The Internet Hall of Fame in its account of his work commented "Tomlinson's email program brought about a complete revolution, fundamentally changing the way people communicate."

  3. List of musician and band name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Audioslave – According to lead guitarist Tom Morello, the name supposedly came to singer Chris Cornell in a vision. [40] Auto-Icon – Derived from the term Auto-Iconization first attributed to Jeremy Bentham, Utility and Democracy: The Political Thought of Jeremy Bentham. Auto-Icon Started as a one-man project in Los Angeles in 1999 with the ...

  4. Tom Ray - Wikipedia

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    Ray was born in Williams, Arizona. [1] He began work at Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1937, working under Tex Avery for six months. He applied for a job at MGM and was hired. According to him, he got paid $18 a week, 6 times the money he got paid at the Warner Bros

  5. Tom Dowd - Wikipedia

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    In 2003, director Mark Moormann premiered an award-winning documentary about his life entitled Tom Dowd and the Language of Music. In the 2004 biopic about musician Ray Charles, Ray, Tom Dowd was portrayed by actor Rick Gomez. Dowd was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

  6. Ray (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Ray is a masculine given name and short form of the given name Raymond, and may refer to: Politics. Ray Aguilar (born 1947), Nebraska state senator; Ray Aguilera ...

  7. Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. - Wikipedia

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    In 1949, he won an Institute of Radio Engineers Award "For his contributions in the development of cathode-ray instrumentation and in the field of television." [ 17 ] In 1979, the Radio Club of America honored Goldsmith with the first Allen B. DuMont Citation for "important contributions in the field of electronics to the science of television ...

  8. Ray Harroun - Wikipedia

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    Ray Wade Harroun (January 12, 1879 – January 19, 1968) was an American racing driver and pioneering race car constructor. He is most famous for winning the inaugural Indianapolis 500 in 1911 . Biography

  9. Thomas J. Watson Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Thomas John Watson Jr. (January 14, 1914 – December 31, 1993) was an American businessman, diplomat, Army Air Forces pilot, and philanthropist. The son of IBM Corporation founder Thomas J. Watson, he was the second IBM president (1952–71), the 11th national president of the Boy Scouts of America (1964–68), and the 16th United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–81).