Sherly Sandberg is born, the beginnings of a cyborg and New Zealand ban software patents. All on today’s On This Day from TESTHuddle.
1969 – Sheryl Sandberg
Sherly Sandberg Chief operating officer of Facebook was born. She became chief Operating Office of Facebook in August 2013. Previous to this, she was Vice President of Global Online Sales at Google and chief of staff for the Secretary of the Treasury. Her first book “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead” was published in 2013.
1998 – The first cyborg
Professor Kevin Warwick, a professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, on this day became the first human to be implanted with a microchip. The microchif consists of a glass capsule, measuring about 23mm by 3mm. It contains several microprocessors in a simple RFID, which stays in Warwick’s left arm for nine days. The device was used to test the practicality of interaction between the device and the computer controlled doors. The experiment is known as Project Cyborg.
2013 – New Zealand ban software patents
With a vote of 117-4, New Zealand Parliament banned software patents. The reasons for the ban include the wish to allow software innovation in New Zealand, and to stop ‘patent trolls’, those who buy patents to sue those who develop software similar to those patents. The passing of the bill was welcomed by the Institute of IT Professionals in New Zealand as many saw the patent system for software inhabiting software innovation. You can read more on the story here.
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