Gordon Bell is born, Google Shares start trading and Cameron Diaz becomes a risky name to Google. All on today’s On This Day from TestHuddle.
1934 – Gordon Bell is born
Gordon Bell, considered by many to be the father of the minicomputer and is also an authority on supercomputing is born in Kirksville, Missouri. He graduated with a B.S. (1956), and M.S. (1957) in electrical engineering from MIT before moving on to work for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1960, where he designed the I/O subsystem of the PDP-1, including the first UART. Bell was the architect of the PDP-4, and PDP-6. He left DEC to teach at Carnegie Mellon University but returned in 1972 as vice-president of engineering. Then he headed up development of the VAX, DEC’s most successful computer. He currently works for Microsoft in its research division where his research is in life-logging.
2004 – Google shares start trading
Google goes public. Stocks start trading (19,605,052 shares) at $85 a share on the NASDAQ. The shares reached a peak price of $600 a share in February of this year.
2010 – Cameron Diaz: Do Not Google
McAfee reports that Cameron Diaz replaces Jessica Biel as the riskiest celebrity to search for on the Internet.
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