Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| 7573574 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A lithographic apparatus and method comprise an illumination system arranged to provide a radiation beam, a support structure configured to support a product patterning device and a metrology target patterning device. The product patterning device imparts a radiatio... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7570358 | Angularly resolved scatterometer, inspection method, lithographic apparatus, lithographic processing cell device manufacturing method and alignment sensor An angularly resolved scatterometer uses a broadband radiation source and an acousto-optical tunable filter to select one or more narrowband components from the broadband beam emitted by the source for use in measurements. A feedback loop can be used to control the ... | 08/04/2009 |
