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How is a botanist the "Father of Radio?"

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How is a botanist the "Father of Radio?"

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Bose was early to the party in interdisciplinary approaches. The combination of physics and botany led to him to prove plants had life. Bose was the inventor of the Crescograph, a device that measures tiny changes and reactions in plant cells in response to stimuli. He is also credited with first demonstrating wireless communication with radio waves. Bose's belief that knowledge should be shared freely and not constrained with patents. Two years later, Italian Guglielmo Marconi was credited for the first proper radio communication by the West when patenting the technology.
J.C. Bose — 'Father of Radio Science' who was forgotten by West due to his aversion to patents – ThePrint – Select

Although he was not fond of patents, he is credited as the first Asian who was awarded a US patent in 1904. The firsts don't end there for Bose; Bose is also considered the father of Bengali Science Fiction. 161st Birth Anniversary Of Jagdish Chandra Bose, Father Of Modern Science In India (ndtv.com)

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Famous for his contributions to computer science and engineering

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As a child, Mark Dean excelled in math. In elementary school, he took advanced level math courses and, in high school, Dean even built his own computer, radio, and amplifier. Dean continued his interests and went on to obtain a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee, a masters degree in electrical engineering from Florida Atlantic University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford. He is one of the most prominent black inventors in the field of computers.

Dr. Mark Dean started working at IBM in 1980 and was instrumental in the invention of the Personal Computer (PC). He holds three of IBM's original nine PC patents and currently holds more than 20 total patents. The famous African-American inventor never thought the work he was doing would end up being so useful to the world, but he has helped IBM make instrumental changes in areas ranging from the research and application of systems technology circuits to operating environments. One of his most recent computer inventions occurred while leading the team that produced the 1-Gigahertz chip, which contains one million transistors and has nearly limitless potential.

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Dr. Mark Dean: Computer Inventions - Famous Black Inventors

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As a child, Mark Dean excelled in math. In elementary school, he took advanced level math courses and, in high school, Dean even built his own computer, radio, and amplifier. Dean continued his interests and went on to obtain a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee, a masters degree in electrical engineering from Florida Atlantic University and a Ph.D.

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From humble beginnings in Jefferson County in East Tennessee, his grandfather, the principal at a segregated black school, instilled into Mark that bigotry is taught. His father was a tinkerer. From his family, he had permission to tinker and learned that all people will not like you. When Mark later went to the all black school with four grades in one classroom, Mark started tutoring the fourth graders while he was in the first grade.  His family went on to teach him to not be afraid. Achievement is expected. In graduate school, he built a graphics workstation which led to the foundation of the PC. With an undergrad in electrical engineering, he pursued his 9th grade dream in wanting to work for IBM. In college, Mark planned his career; a goal was to be the youngest IBM fellow, get his master's, get a PhD, lead IBM research, retire and start an academic career. In his time at IBM, mark created the ISA Bus, which was an industry standard for over 15 years to allow external devices plug into PCs. He is also part of many of IBM's early patents for the PC.

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Mark Dean - Inventions, Education & Computers - Biography

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Photo: AP Photo/IBM

Quick Facts

"A lot of kids growing up today aren't told that you can be whatever you want to be. There may be obstacles, but there are no limits."

University of Tennessee, Stanford University, Florida Atlantic University

Jefferson City, Tennessee

Computer scientist and engineer Mark Dean is credited with helping develop a number of landmark technologies, including the color PC monitor, the Industry Standard Architecture system bus and the first gigahertz chip.

Who Is Mark Dean?

Computer scientist and engineer Mark Dean helped develop a number of landmark technologies for IBM, including the color PC monitor and the first gigahertz chip. He holds three of the company's original nine patents. He also invented the Industry Standard Architecture system bus with engineer Dennis Moeller, allowing for computer plug-ins such as disk drives and printers.

Early Life and Education

Dean was born on March 2, 1957, in Jefferson City, Tennessee. Dean is credited with helping to launch the personal computer age with work that made the machines more accessible and powerful.

From an early age, Dean showed a love for building things. As a young boy, Dean constructed a tractor from scratch with the help of his father, a supervisor at the Tennessee Valley Authority. Dean also excelled in many different areas, standing out as a gifted athlete and an extremely smart student who graduated with straight A's from Jefferson City High School. In 1979, he graduated at the top of his class at the University of Tennessee, where he studied engineering.

Innovation with IBM

Not long after college, Dean landed a job at IBM, a company he would become associated with for the duration of his career. As an engineer, Dean proved to be a rising star at the company. Working closely with a colleague, Dennis Moeller, Dean developed the new Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) systems bus, a new system that allowed peripheral devices like disk drives, printers and monitors to be plugged directly into computers. The end result was more efficiency and better integration.

But his groundbreaking work didn't stop there. Dean's research at IBM helped change the accessibility and power of the personal computer. His work led to the development of the color PC monitor and, in 1999, Dean led a team of engineers at IBM's Austin, Texas, lab to create the first gigahertz chip-a revolutionary piece of technology that is able to do a billion calculations a second.

In all, Dean holds three of the company's original nine patents and, in total, has more 20 patents associated with his name.

Later Years

Despite his early success, Dean continued to further his education. He earned his master's degree in electrical engineering from Florida Atlantic University in 1982. Then, 10 years later, he completed his doctorate in the same field from Stanford University.

While Dean's name isn't quite as well known as maybe other computer pioneers such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, the inventor hasn't gone completely unrecognized. In 1996, he was named an IBM fellow, the first African American ever to receive the honor. A year later, he was honored with the Black Engineer of the Year President's Award and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In 2001, he was tapped to be a member of the National Academy of Engineers.

"A lot of kids growing up today aren't told that you can be whatever you want to be," Dean has said. "There may be obstacles, but there are no limits."

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"A lot of kids growing up today aren't told that you can be whatever you want to be. There may be obstacles, but there are no limits." University of Tennessee, Stanford University, Florida Atlantic University Jefferson City, Tennessee Computer scientist and engineer Mark Dean is credited with helping develop a number of landmark technologies, including the color PC monitor, the Industry Standard Architecture system bus and the first gigahertz chip.

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Before becoming a renown botanist, physicist, author, inventor, and eventually being called the "father of radio science", JC Bose grew up in what is now present day Bangladesh. He attended the village pathshaala, rather then attend an english school, a decision in which his father wanted him to experience sons of fisherman and muslim attendants over aristocracy. Although his family was not lower class, it was important for him to learn his mother's tongue and eventually sparked his interest in the workings of nature.

J.C. Bose — 'Father of Radio Science' who was forgotten by West due to his aversion to patents – ThePrint – Select

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Dr. Dean helped build a blue gene machine which was targeted to fold a protein in a reasonable amount of time. This machine was a supercomputer with over 130,000 processors running simultaneously and was not only applied to the biomolecular phenomena of protein folding but other complex problems like mapping the human genome.

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