Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Who Is Dr. Mark E. Dean?
On Tuesday, April 12, 2005, history was made at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville's College of Engineering's annual Honors Banquet as Dean Way Kuo presented the prestigious Nathan W. Dougherty Engineering Award for distinguished alumni to its first minority recipient, Dr. Mark Dean. Dean, currently Vice President at IBM and the lab director of IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, oversees more than 500 scientists and engineers performing exploratory and applied research in various hardware, software and services areas, including nanotechnology, materials science, storage systems, data management, web technologies, workplace practices and user interfaces.
Dean was one of the first UT College of Engineering minority students to receive the Minority Engineering Scholarship, which has since been renamed the Diversity Engineering Scholarship. Dean graduated with his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the UT COE in 1979. He later earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Florida Atlantic University and a doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
In the early 1980s, Dean and a fellow inventor, Dennis Moeller, developed computer architecture that allowed IBM and IBM-compatible personal computers to run high-performance software. He holds three of the original nine patents on the standard IBM personal desktop computer that served as a basis for all personal computers.
Dean was the chief engineer for the development of the IBM PC/AT, ISA systems bus, PS/2 Model 70 and 80, the Color Graphics Adapter in the original IBM PC and numerous other subsystems. His invention of the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) "bus" -- which permitted add-on devices such as keyboards, disk drives and printers to connect with a motherboard -- earned him election into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1997. Dean was only the third African-American to receive that honor.
Dean was named "Black Engineer of the Year" in 1997 and in 2000. In 1995, Dean was appointed as an IBM Fellow, IBM's highest technical honor. Among Dean's other awards, he has received 13 Invention Achievement Awards and six Corporate Awards. He also was honored with the U.S. Department of Commerce's Ronald H. Brown American Innovator Award.
Overall, Dean holds more than 40 patents. In 2000, U.S. News & World Report named him as one of the "Innovators of the 21st Century."
The Dougherty Award is traditionally given to an individual whose professional engineering practice has advanced the field of engineering and brought honor and distinction to the College of Engineering. The award is named in honor of UT graduate and former COE Dean Nathan Dougherty, who served as dean from 1916 to 1946.
From the University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Detroit's Old School "The Scene" - WGPR-TV
This was a Black dance show directed and produced in Detroit, Michigan in the 1970's to the 1980's. WGPR-TV was the only Black-owned television station in the nation.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Time To Give It Up — Thanks Again — Repost
This is the third year since I was hospitalized with necrotizing infasciitis (the flesh-eating disease). I intend to repost this information every year as a living chronicle of what God has done for me when a chief surgeon had all but given me up for dead. It is a witness to God's grace and mercy.It had been prophesied a long, long time ago that God intended to use me in a big way. I was told that I should trust and obey what God's will is for my life. Furthermore, in a validating move, He saved my life* about this time last year in a situation that was against all odds where the chief surgeon at a large nationally ranked hospital had predicted my demise and/or the loss of a limb. Wrong! I'm still here with all of my original equipment.
I have finally determined that I will start to more fully obey and go wherever He leads me. I think that includes His purpose for the content of this blog. So, enough already with the pointing out of that which borders on the sacreligious... enough of the comedy of the profane... and enough of the ignorant stuff. There are an overabundance of web sites that serve to tittilate the senses. I don't have time to spend time doing anything less than that which will glorify my Father. I now dedicate this blog to whatever it will take to inform and educate others in the way that I have been lead by the Spirit. This is the first step in doing just that!
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Monday, April 7, 2008
Elephant Painting
No less amazing than mankind's most wondrous invention, yet among the most common of wonders God created!
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
The Lord's Prayer
I sing this prayer, everyday, as part of my prayer ritual. I am just too happy that I have found this child who acts as a positive affirmation that there are plenty of others out there raising their voices in supplication to the Almighty. He said in his word, "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." We are a land in need of a healing! I am a Christian who has humbled, and pray, and seek, and turned, and I am expecting a miracle. Won't you join me?
Monday, March 31, 2008
Singer Sean Levert Dies at 39
Singer Sean Levert Dies at 39CLEVELAND (AP) — Singer Sean Levert, a third of the 1980s R&B trio LeVert and son of lead O'Jays singer Eddie Levert, has died after falling ill while serving a jail term. He was 39.
Levert was sent to the Cuyahoga County jail last week for failing to pay child support. He died at Lutheran Hospital in Cleveland late Sunday, less than an hour after he was taken there from the jail, said coroner Frank Miller. An autopsy was planned, he said.
His brother Gerald Levert, who had success as a solo artist after leaving their trio died in 2006 at age 40 of an accidental mix of prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
The brothers had formed LeVert in the 1980s with childhood friend Marc Gordon. Their hits included and "Baby I'm Ready," "(Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop) Goes My Mind" and "Casanova."
"Casanova" was nominated for a Grammy in 1988 for best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocal. It was also nominated for best R&B song.
At Gerald Levert's funeral service in November 2006, Sean Levert and his father performed "Dance With My Father" and personalized the words for Gerald. The elder Levert's group, the O'Jays, was known for such smash hits as "Back Stabbers" and "Love Train."
Sean Levert found a new third partner last year and was trying to revive LeVert.
Warden Kevin McDonough said Levert had been sick and guards were watching him at the jail's regular cellblock because he had been acting strangely. He declined to be more specific about Levert's medical condition.
Levert suffered from high blood pressure and had been hallucinating in jail, Caesar said. Toxicology reports could take four to six weeks, he said.
Sean Levert had pleaded guilty last week to six counts of nonsupport involving children ages 11, 15 and 17.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Happy Birthday Uncle Charles 2008
What can I say? This has to be one of the best, if not the BEST birthday present I have ever had. It's awesome that you all would take the time to make me feel so special! Here is my testimony for this remarkable feat you have done... Giving honor to God, who is the head of my life, and Hank, Kim, Janet, Sabrina, all of the young people and children present... I have a special place where I carry each and every one of you in my heart. I love you; one and all. Like little Timothy Cox at Christ Temple Apostolic Church in Indianapolis had said years ago in Children's Council: "I thank the Lord for being baptized, I thank the Lord for being here, and y'all pray for me I be sabed!" (at least long enough to come visit or maybe even long enough to relocate to the great ATL. In a nutshell, I LOVE ALL YALL!
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
David A. Paterson - 1st Black Governor of New York
David A. Paterson will assume the position of governor of New York upon the resignation of ex-governor Eliot L. Spitzer, effective March 17.David A. Paterson was elected lieutenant governor of New York in November 2006 on the ticket led by Eliot Spitzer. Previously, Mr. Paterson had served as the minority leader of the state Senate. The scion of a prominent Harlem political family, Mr. Paterson was born legally blind and worked as a prosecutor before entering politics.
Mr. Paterson's decision to become Mr. Spitzer's running mate stunned many in Albany. With the growing strength of Democrats in statewide elections, it seemed only a matter of time before his party took over the chamber, allowing him to join the ruling triumvirate in Albany and take his seat with the governor and the Assembly speaker to decide between them how New York State is governed. By contrast, the lieutenant governor's post brings with it no power and little prestige.
Mr. Paterson explained the decision in terms the few lieutenant governors who had been given a real role, saying he wanted to be an "extension'' of Mr. Spitzer. Others close to him spoke of the enviable position he would be in if there was a chance to move up. If, for instance, Hillary Clinton were to become president, Mr. Spitzer would appoint a replacement to complete her term. Mr. Paterson has demonstrated political skills and good timing in the past; he became the minority leader in the Senate by pulling off a coup, which is a rare feat in Albany.
As the leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate, Mr. Paterson has tried to make up for his lack of power with wit, flurries of reform proposals and unusual bursts of candor, a combination that has made him a quotable presence in a Capitol where such leaders are often ignored as irrelevant. He worked on making inroads with national Democrats, traveling to Washington to meet with Congressional leaders. And here, where much of what passes for legislative humor is of the backslapping variety, Mr. Paterson's stands out.
Take his request at a recent news conference on government reform. "Anyone else in this Capitol that's telling you about the reform that they're doing, I want you to give me their names, we're going to bring them to this conference room, and we're going to beat them up," he said, with a straight face.
Mr. Paterson was born to politics. His father, Basil, represented the same Harlem district that his son later did, and ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1970. The younger Mr. Paterson was raised at the knees of much of Harlem's old guard. He also grew up legally blind, after an infection as an infant that left him totally without sight in his left eye and with severely limited sight in his right. His family moved to Long Island, where they found a school that agreed to educate him in regular classrooms. He graduated from high school in three years, went to college at Columbia and graduated from Hofstra Law School.
When he was elected Senate minority leader, Mr. Paterson recalled the discrimination he had suffered because he is disabled. “So I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn’t think I could do,” he said. “This is just another.”
Monday, March 3, 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Randy Pausch Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Randy Pausch (born Randolph Frederick Pausch on October 23, 1960) is a 47 year-old Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In September 2006, he was diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer. He pursued a very aggressive cancer treatment that included major surgery and experimental chemotherapy; however in August of 2007 he was told that the cancer had metastasized to his liver and spleen. He then started palliative chemotherapy intended to extend his life as long as possible, which was then estimated to be three to six months. He remains vigorous and active six months later (February 2008).
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