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The widespread use of the IBM's PC, [53] using the 8088 processor, established the use of x86 architecture as a de facto standard for decades. The IEEE wrote that "almost all the world’s PCs are built around CPUs that can claim the 8088 as an ancestor." [54] [55] Intel has credited the 8088 with launching the company into the Fortune 500. [54]
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Israeli inventions" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 ...
The Invention of the Jewish People (Hebrew: מתי ואיך הומצא העם היהודי?, romanized: Matai ve’ech humtza ha’am hayehudi?, literally When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?) is a study of Jewish historiography by Shlomo Sand, Professor of History at Tel Aviv University. It has generated a heated controversy.
Sign on Nobel Laureates Boulevard in Rishon LeZion saluting Jewish Nobel laureates. Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, [1] at least 216 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews comprise only 0.2% of ...
Schulze is best known for his discovery that the darkening in sunlight of various substances mixed with silver nitrate is due to the light, not the heat as other experimenters believed, and for using the phenomenon to temporarily capture shadows.
Also in 2016, Quizlet launched "Quizlet Live", a real-time online matching game where teams compete to answer all 12 questions correctly without an incorrect answer along the way. [15] In 2017, Quizlet created a premium offering called "Quizlet Go" (later renamed "Quizlet Plus"), with additional features available for paid subscribers.
Sylvan was raised in the Jewish faith and was bar mitzvahed. [6] Sylvan learned the retail trade from his father and his mother's uncles. [6] Goldman served in World War I as a food requisitionist in France. [7] His brother served in the US Army but was discharged for health reasons. Goldman was not educated past the eighth grade. [4]
Richard Stallman, designed the GNU operating system, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) [53] [54] Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American-Dutch computer scientist; creator of MINIX [55] Warren Teitelman, autocorrect, Undo/Redo, Interlisp [56] Larry Tesler, developed the idea of cut, copy, and paste [57]