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

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telephone companies. He began his career at Ferranti , an electrical engineering and equipment company in Manchester, England. Fraser held several leadership positions at the company during his 30 years there. In 1994 he became associate vice president for the company’s information science research department.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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On a visit to Pakistan with his parents, 7-year-old Aadeel Akhtar met a girl his age who was missing her right leg. To get some advice about how to run the company and possibly win some money, he entered the bionic hand into the Cozad New Venture Challenge at the University of Illinois. Akhtar working on the prosthetic hand PSYONIC.

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