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8 unusual facts about tech


Almost ready to fly

Though most require full assembly, many injection molded foam kits such as the Grand Wing Servo-Tech Formosa are considered to be almost ready to fly due to the low parts count.

Bit-tech

In some cases, this resulted in apples-to-oranges comparisons - something that has split the enthusiast's community on many occasions.

GURPS Bio-Tech

The first edition of GURPS Bio-Tech was written by David L. Pulver.

Mys-Tech

Mys-Tech operated as a respectable business but hidden beneath one of their front organisations, The Museum of Pagan Antiquities at Canary Wharf in London they had constructed a fantastic underground headquarters.

Neo-Tech

Neo-Tech, a philosophy being promoted by the above company.

The University Register

A typical issue of The UR is between fourteen and eighteen pages long, and consists of seven sections: News, Tech, Editorial, Sports, Arts & Entertainment, Variety, and a bi-weekly Feature.

Vor-Tech: Undercover Conversion Squad

It would be many years before the concepts seen in either Vor-Tech or M.A.S.K would be seen again in the form of A.T.O.M., an animated series developed by Kenner's eventual owners, Hasbro.

One of the voice actors who did this show was David Sobolov, who played the evil Lord Matrix (alias Damian Roarke), the other voice actor was Michael Donovan, who played Shepherd (aka Hudson Roarke), who led VOR-tech.


Angus McKie

His illustrations often present highly detailed spacecraft against vividly colored backgrounds and high-tech constructions as demonstrated by his pioneering work on The Dome: Ground Zero for DC Comics imprint Helix in 1998.

Bandung High Tech Valley

Bandung High Tech Valley (BHTV) is an initiative to foster technology-based business and industries in Bandung region.

Blacksun Festival

:Additional events: Art Show & Reception, the Future Music Panel (with Martin Atkins, Bruno Kramm, Valerie Lovely, Andrew Sega, and Patrick Rogers), Panels, Tech Styles Fashion Show, Vendor Market

Burdell

George P. Burdell, fictitious student officially enrolled at Georgia Tech in 1927 as a practical joke and continuously enrolled to this day

Cape Peninsula University of Technology

In 1993, the Technikons Act was promulgated, which allowed technikons to offer Bachelor's degrees (B.Tech), Master's and Doctoral degrees in Technology.

Chanel J12

The range is known for its black and white high-tech ceramic watches worn by celebrities such as Sharon Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, Fearne Cotton, Dale Winton and others.

Credit Suisse First Boston

At the same time, the newly global CSFB became a leading high tech banker, acting as lead (or co-lead) underwriter in the IPOs of Amazon.com and Cisco Systems, as well as one time high fliers such as Silicon Graphics, Intuit, Netscape and VA Linux Systems.

Cubbage

B. C. Cubbage, the head coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies football program from 1921 to 1925

CULC

Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, a large academic building at Georgia Tech named for G. Wayne Clough

Dan Dodge

After moving to Kanata, Ontario, (a high-tech area outside Ottawa) to start Quantum Software Systems (later renamed QNX Software Systems to avoid confusion with the famous hard drive manufacturer), the first commercial version of QNX was released for the Intel 8088 CPU in 1982.

Danville New Tech High

Danville New Tech High School is a school located in Danville, Illinois.

Dean Menta

Menta had been a keyboard tech for the band and was recruited to handle guitar duties after Trey Spruance declined to tour for the album King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime.

Dean Spratt

He then took up his hobby of amateur radio, propelled by the internet, and joined the W0KIE Satellite Radio Network where he hosted a weekly music/tech/comedy show, Thursday Night Potpourri.

Delhi, Louisiana

Charles and Sam Wyly, businessmen who endowed Wyly Tower of Learning at Louisiana Tech.

Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft

A large proportion of the revenue generated by the championship went to the FIA, with the result that less went to the teams who subsequently complained of little return on their increasingly large investment in the high-tech series (this was further exacerbated by the travel costs to the new international rounds in Suzuka, Japan and Interlagos, Brazil).

Ellis Johnson

Ellis L. Johnson, Coca-Cola chair professor for Georgia Tech's School of ISyE

Groupon

When the company reported in the second quarter of 2012 that its revenues had declined along with customer growth and the amount of money existing customers spent on the site, Slate tech journalist Farhad Manjoo said Agrawal had been vindicated.

Jon Udell

Udell is author of Practical Internet Groupware, published in 1999 by O'Reilly Media, and is an advisor to O'Reilly's Safari Tech Books Online.

Lego Mars Mission

It is set on Mars and features astronauts, aliens, and high-tech machinery.

Lund v. Commonwealth

While working on his Ph.D. research in the 1970s, Lund utilized the resources of Virginia Tech's computer lab.

Manoir Industries

Manoir Industries is a global company in metal processing for the high tech casting and forging components in petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, civil engineering, energy, defense, and construction markets.

Mickey Slaughter

Notable LA Tech football players coached by Slaughter include Terry Bradshaw, Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty, Tommy Spinks, Roger Carr, Mike Barber, Pat Tilley, and Billy Ryckman.

Moody's Mega Math Challenge

The winning paper from 2008 was published in the College Mathematics Journal and a representative from High Tech's team appeared on FOX Business Channel.

Newbridge, Caerphilly

Notable people to have grown up in Newbridge include world-champion boxer Joe Calzaghe CBE; Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown; Steve Strange, frontman of New Romantic band Visage; and Sir Terry Matthews OBE, high-tech entrepreneur and owner of the Celtic Manor Resort.

Pointy-haired Boss

The company's actual name, as spoken in the TV series, was "Path-Way Electronics" before merging with "E-Tech Management", making it "Path-E-Tech Management" (a play on the word "pathetic"), but when Dogbert acquired it later in the episode, there was a "Dogbert Inc." sign being lifted into place.

Prasad Ram

He obtained his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1987.

Pyrénées-Orientales

Pyrénées-Orientales consists of three river valleys in the Pyrenees mountain range –from north to south, those of the Agly, Têt and Tech– and the eastern Plain of Roussillon into which they converge.

QNX

Both were convinced there was a commercial need for such a system, and moved to the high-tech planned community Kanata, Ontario, to start Quantum Software Systems that year.

Retro City Rampage

The Player must work with Doc Choc to gather the rare parts needed to repair the time booth, while avoiding law enforcement, his own former employer Jester, Bayside High School students, and Dr. Von Buttnik, Doc Choc's rival and the head of R&D at A.T. Corp, a tech corporation and The Player's former employer, who's CEO, Sweat Bomber, wishes to use the time machine to control the electronics market.

Reynolds Homestead

The homestead is currently an outreach facility of Virginia Tech, and includes the restored home of R.J. Reynolds and a continuing education center, which are operated by the Virginia Tech Department of Outreach and International Affairs.

Robert Prunty

Following head coach Tommy Tuberville's departure to Cincinnati, Prunty remained a member of the Texas Tech staff through the 2012 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas.

Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

Most engineering classes are held in the Technological Institute (1942), which students commonly refer to as "Tech."

Robert Snyder

Robert C. Snyder (1919–2011), professor of English at Louisiana Tech University

Rosanne Siino

Since retiring, she has consulted for numerous high-tech and Internet companies, such as AOL, Google, Shutterfly, Qualcomm, and PlanetOut.

Russ Lorenson

The multi-talented artist plunged into the high-tech world just as the dot-com boom was exploding.

Shashi Nambisan

Nambisan graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, in Madras (now Chennai), India, with a B.Tech.

Silicon Institute of Technology

Sabyasachi Mishra, popular film star, completed his B Tech in Electronics & Telecom from silicon institute of technology.

SlashNET

SlashNET has been host to numerous IRC forums with famous people in the tech industry, including Ken Coar, Marcel Gagne, Richard Stallman, Jamie Zawinski, Matt Dillon of DragonflyBSD, Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda and Jeff 'Hemos' Bates of Slashdot, Rusty Foster and Dylan 'Inoshiro' Griffiths of kuro5hin, and the distributed.net crew.

Stereotypes of West and Central Asians in the United States

"The Turk", a Turkish Mafioso in the dark comedy film Buffalo Soldiers and "Ahmet Sunay", a Turkish High-Tech Missile Guidance System dealer and "businessman" in the thriller film The International, both played by Turkish actor Haluk Bilginer is another similar stereotype.

Street Tech

Street Tech is a personal technology review website founded by the writer, editor, and media critic Gareth Branwyn.

U.M.M.

A good comparison may be as well made with modern EBM or anhalt bands like Spetsnaz, Sturm Café, EkoBrottsMyndigheten, A.D.A.C.8286, Tech Nomader or Spark!

Virgil Griffith

It was at Interz0ne 1 in 2002 that he met Billy Hoffman, a Georgia Tech student, who had discovered a security flaw in the campus magnetic ID card system called "BuzzCard".

Warner Premiere

The film follows the adventures of the two tech experts from the first film, played by Masi Oka and Nate Torrence, respectively.

Wes Kittley

Former Tech athletes coached by Kittley would go on to win 3 Medals in the 2012 Olympic Games: Olympic Gold medalist in the 4x400 Relay Michael Mathieu, Olympic Bronze medalist in the 4x400 Relay Shereefa Lloyd, and Olympic Silver medalist in the 10,000M Sally Kipyego.

Widdowson Group

The warehouse systems utilise EDI solutions with integrated RF and Barcode scanning in their WMS supplied by Road Tech.

Xavier Vilalta

He has taught as a professor at Barcelona Tech ETSAB and the University of Lleida.


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