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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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The telecommunications technology is used by all major U.S. He began his career at Ferranti , an electrical engineering and equipment company in Manchester, England. First used in Apple ’s iTunes program, it now can be found in all smartphones. telephone companies. before joining Texas Instruments in Dallas.

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Move Over, Tractor—the Farmer Wants a Crop-Spraying Drone

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We were like, ‘Screw all the school stuff—drones are the future,’” Erickson says. “I I already thought I had all the requisite technical skills and had learned enough after six months of school, which obviously was arrogant.” They were eager to quit college and launch their business, which he admits was a little presumptuous. “We