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  2. List of Ig Nobel Prize winners - Wikipedia

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    Video of the 1996 Ceremony, incl. several Nobel Prize winners. The ceremony took place on 3 October 1996. [31] Art – Presented to Don Featherstone of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, for his ornamentally evolutionary invention, the plastic pink flamingo. Featherstone was the first Ig Nobel Prize winner to appear in person at the awards ceremony to ...

  3. Isaac Newton - Wikipedia

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    Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. [7]

  4. Applications of artificial intelligence - Wikipedia

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    In one study done with transfer learning, an AI diagnosed eye conditions similar to an ophthalmologist and recommended treatment referrals. [120] Another study demonstrated surgery with an autonomous robot. The team supervised the robot while it performed soft-tissue surgery, stitching together a pig's bowel judged better than a surgeon. [121]

  5. Liquid-crystal display - Wikipedia

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    An FSC LCD divides a color image into 3 images (one Red, one Green and one Blue) and it displays them in order. Due to persistence of vision , the 3 monochromatic images appear as one color image. An FSC LCD needs an LCD panel with a refresh rate of 180 Hz, and the response time is reduced to just 5 milliseconds when compared with normal STN ...

  6. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Scott A. Jones (born 1960), U.S. – created one of the most successful versions of voicemail as well as ChaCha Search, a human-assisted internet search engine; Tom Parry Jones (1935–2013), UK – first electronic Breathalyzer; Assen Jordanoff (1896–1967), Bulgaria – airbag; Marc Jorgenson, Canada – engineer, inventor and musician

  7. Neurodiversity - Wikipedia

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    One example of the push toward this is the Stanford Neurodiversity Project, in which one of their goals is to discover the strengths of neurodiverse individuals and make use of their talents to increase innovation and productivity of their society, such as working in the field of healthcare and medicine.

  8. Condoleezza Rice - Wikipedia

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    Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld participate in a video conference with President Bush and Iraqi PM Maliki in 2006 Rice was a proponent of the 2003 invasion of Iraq . After Iraq delivered its declaration of weapons of mass destruction to the United Nations on December 8, 2002, Rice wrote an editorial for The New York Times entitled "Why We Know Iraq ...