Women fear computers despite capability says program
Dr. Jane OShaughnessy, chair of emergency medicine at St Barnabas in New Jersey, says she fears computers though she handles high pressure cases. She attended a two day course for women run by the Women s Computer Literacy Project at a Manhattan Radio Shack. Deborah Brecher of the project says culture teaches girls machines are a man s world and predicts job loss for those not computer literate in five years.
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New York Times Service
NEW York
Jane O’shaughnessy
O’shaughnessy
Department of Emergency Medicine
St. Barnabas Medical Center
Livingston
N.J
O'Shaughnessy
Radio Shack
Manhattan
Women’s Computer Literacy Project
San Francisco
Deborah Brecher
Miss Brecher
First computer user was a woman says industry publisher
Interface Age publisher Robert Jones credits Lady Augusta Lovelace with early use of Charles Babbage's analytical engine, noting her work on test programs and a failed horse racing gamble. The article also covers women’s attitudes toward computing and fear or math phobia among learners.
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Robert Jones
Interface Age
Jones
Augusta Lovelace
Lord Byron
Charles Babbage
Babbage
Lady Augusta Lovelace
Lady Lovelace
Biogen to Sell Gene Spliced Interferon in China
Biogen signs a letter of intent with Shaanxi Pharmaceutical Bureau to form a joint venture to produce and market gamma interferon in China. The plan aims to supply human testing material and eventually manufacture locally, with testing for liver and stomach cancer cited. Biogen notes this could open a significant new market.
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Cambridge, Mass
Biogen
China
Shaanxi Pharmaceutical Bureau
People’s Republic of China
Mark Skaletsky
U.S
Geneva
Cambridge
Noteworthy Patents Issued Last Week by USPTO
A report from Washington D.C. lists patents issued in the prior week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The article highlights several new inventions and their inventors, reflecting ongoing innovation and intellectual property activity in the United States.
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Washington D.C
RCA Patents Video Disk Player With On Screen Captions
RCA Corp received a patent for a video disk player that displays information and operation instructions on screen even without a disk. The invention allows captions to remain visible during interruptions of picture and sound, a feature not seen in prior devices where captions appeared only with the video.
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RCA Corp
RCA
Quaker Oats Wins Two Patents for Red Meat Colorants
The Quaker Oats Co of Chicago earned patents for natural red coloring derived from wheat and barley substrates and from oat substrates. The process involves culturing a mold in nutrient solutions to produce red pigmented grain used as a food ingredient.
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Quaker Oats Co
Chicago
Sex Determination Device Patented by Suzuki in Salisbury
Kiyonobu Suzuki of Salisbury Maryland received a patent for a device that uses a light burst directed at the chick’s posterior opening. The reflected light at multiple frequencies is compared with standard values to indicate the chick’s sex.
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Kiyonobu Suzuki
Salisbury
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