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Milana Vayntrub was born on March 8, 1987, to a secular Ashkenazi Jewish family in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, then a Soviet republic. [5] [6] Her grandparents were from Ukraine.[7] [8] When she was two years old, she and her parents immigrated to the United States as refugees from antisemitism, [9] settling in West Hollywood, California.
Radia Joy Perlman (/ ˈ r eɪ d i ə /; [1] born December 18, 1951) is an American computer programmer and network engineer. She is a major figure in assembling the networks and technology to enable what we now know as the internet.
Marian Rogers Croak is an American engineer known for her voice over IP (VoIP) related inventions. [1] Croak worked for three decades at Bell Labs and AT&T where she filed over 200 patents [2] and works at Google since 2014 where she is Vice President of Engineering, [3] [4] In 2022, she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her work with VoIP.
The invention of the internet is considered to be Jan. 1, 1983, but the vision started decades before. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 [a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris.
As an actress, she was cast in "Rear Windows '98," a 1998 episode of the TV series Diagnosis: Murder, portraying Joannecam, a fictionalized version of herself. She also hosted her own Internet talk show titled The Jennishow [ 26 ] on The Sync , an early webcasting network based in Laurel, Maryland .
In 1992 Trivedi became Ty, Inc.’s 12th employee. [6] In 1995, Beanie Babies were escalating as a pop culture craze throughout the world. In early 1995, Trivedi approached Ty Warner, then president of Ty, Inc., and shared her thoughts that the product hang tags were boring, and that unique birthdays and poems on the inside of the heart-shaped tags would make the items more collectible and ...
One woman is uncovering an uncanny connection between her life and a famous Disney Channel show. It all started a few years ago when Alexis Nido-Russo walked into a bank and handed her debit card ...