jbrazile

My dad wrote a multi-thousand line turbo-prolog expert system to do airline gate assignment at JFK in the 80s https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=74202497920445652...

In my hometown, a bit further down lake Zurich, here are two well-known such places, visible in google maps.

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.234931,8.6521491,3a,75y,13.9...

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.2063957,8.6876991,3a,60y,55....

And further down the lake of Zurich was this one planted in 1860:

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.2305482,8.6713386,3a,60y,287...

I really hope this stuff takes off.

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Portable eye prescription device

https://eyenetra.com/

Portable sonogram

https://www.lumify.philips.com/web/

I wondered that myself having left DSC and moved away from DFW long before the story concluded.

Some details from 2000... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.dcom.telecom/Sq...

And a few more from 2004... http://www.law360.com/articles/1899/appeals-court-affirms-ex...

I am surprised nobody here has yet mentioned the real case of what happened to Evan Brown, the former president of the Dallas Ft Worth Unix Users Group who worked at a telephone switch company as a system administrator and had an idea for a generic code translator.

Maybe the New York Times tells it best:

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/08/business/an-idea-not-yet-b...

English to German still has room for improvement.

At first I was offended but then I realized he was just pulling my leg. He smiled and said, "I'm just yanking your chain." She added, "Don't mind him, he's always rattling someone's cage."

Zuerst war ich beleidigt, aber dann merkte ich, dass er gerade mein Bein zog. Er lächelte und sagte: "Ich zerrle gerade deine Kette." Sie fügte hinzu: "Kümmern Sie sich nicht um ihn, er ist immer rasseln jemandes Käfig."

Hey, I live there too.

On a recent visit to Boston I wanted to use my credit card to buy my wife a gift at Best Buy whose special price was internet-only for store pickup. For those of us whose credit card billing addresses have non-US addresses, their special magic address to get past the US-only address form is:

10780 Kempwood Dr. Houston, TX 77043

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/help-topics/international-orders...