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||1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. | ||1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. | ||
||Herman Heine Goldstine (d. June 16, 2004) was a mathematician and computer scientist, who was one of the original developers of ENIAC, the first of the modern electronic digital computers. Pic. | |||
||2011 – Östen Mäkitalo, Swedish engineer and academic (b. 1938) Nordic mobile, no pic | ||2011 – Östen Mäkitalo, Swedish engineer and academic (b. 1938) Nordic mobile, no pic | ||
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1522: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler uses Gnomon algorithm functions to predict and prevent Crimes against mathematical constants.
1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.
1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.