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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (52743)	7/26/2009 8:10:43 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217979

<<the father of "optical fiber" was a Sikh born in Punjab, India who studied in UK and US>> may have been true enough, but its application to communication was the idea of of family pal uncle charles, one who also wrote a recommendation letter to erita for entry to the right kindergarden/transition school (1,000+ applicants, 40 admitted after two rounds of evaluation of parents and child, odds slightly tougher than the ivy league training centers) that would in turn track to the correct primary and highschool education (we take school entrance very extremely seriously in hk :0) and good that we did some homework on who had push/pull with the school. www-cgi.cnn.com BORN: November 1933 in Shanghai, China 1960: Joins ITT's lab in London, starts research on fiber optics 1966: Publishes paper outlining key features of fiber-optic telecommunications technology 1970: Establishes the electronics department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, while on leave from ITT 1996: Wins Japan Prize for work on fiber optics 1999: Wins Draper Prize for achievement in engineering If you suffer from information overload and are looking for someone to blame, Charles K. Kao is the man. Trace back the development timelines for the Internet, modern telecommunications, video conferencing, electronic commerce, even faxes. All intersect at a laboratory in London where in 1963, a 30-year-old Kao began experiments that culminated in the proof of a visionary concept - that strands of glass fibers thinner than human hair and cheaper to produce than fishing line can transmit near-limitless amounts of digitized data on pulses of laser light. ... ... for those ignorant enough to belittle hk's contributions to science and tech, money rock is one leader in nano stuff, micro motors, and mathematics, which is much more than one can say about sheepish nz ;0)