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It is, and missing from the list but surely mentioned elsewhere is actress Hedy Lamarr, who co-invented a “Secret Communiations System” that laid the foundation for spread spectrum communications which is the backbone today of everything from mobile phones to wi-fi and bluetooth. She wasn’t a programmer or mathematician but had the inspiration and patented the idea decades before it was implemented in practical applications during the early 60s.


3 posted on 10/07/2014 10:57:11 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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IBTH


4 posted on 10/07/2014 10:58:23 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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9 posted on 10/07/2014 11:06:37 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: bigbob
surely mentioned elsewhere is actress Hedy Lamarr
That's Hedley!
10 posted on 10/07/2014 11:11:59 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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