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...Prerequisites completely contradict the idea behind the Core because it limits your choice of classes in areas that you are interested in because you have no background," said Sarah H. Brierley...
...random reasons" that Berners-Lee is known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, he says. "I happened to be in the right place at the right time, and I happened to have the right combination of background." The place was CERN, the European physics laboratory that straddles the Swiss-French border, and he was there twice. The first time, in 1980, he had to master its labyrinthine information system in the course of a six-month consultancy. That was when he created his personal memory substitute, a program called Enquire. It allowed him to fill a document with...
Lewis said she did not talk about her background with her co-workers for fear of being alienated...
...graduate of Radcliffe, her educational background is steeped in the hard sciences. In the 51 years since her graduation, however, her professional path has led her to serve on the boards of directors of major corporations including RCA, General Electric and Avon...
...safe candidate to diversify the board, but RCA ended up with a woman who had the strongest technical background of the group," Selby smiles. "I could understand all their mumbo-jumbo on microprocessors...