Amos E. Joel

An electrical engineer, Joel had a fascination with telephones -- and patents -- all his life, and made his career at the venerable telephone R&D company, Bell Labs. It was Joel who figured out how to automate the billing of long distance calls; it took more than 500 pages to describe for the resulting patent, one of more than 70 awarded to him. But he's best known for an invention patented in 1972: the system that allows a wireless phone call to be handed from one tower to the next without disrupting the call -- which was needed to make cell phones workable. "Without his invention, there wouldn't be all these people walking around with cellphones," said Frank Vigilante, one of Joel's supervisors at Bell Labs. "He really allowed that business to form and to be a business." Joel retired in 1983, and inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007. He died October 25, at 90. From This is True for 26 October 2008 Suggestions for further reading: Head First iPhone Development: A Learner's Guide to Creating Objective-C Appl... by Dan Pilone, Tracey Pilone Amazon Price: $29.69 Customer Review: This is an excellent introduction to iPhone development, including Xcode and Objective-C. Like the other "Head First" books, this book takes a step-by-step approach to development, providing lots of examples and samples to help the reader along. <...   Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition by Akkana Peck Amazon Price: $31.49 Customer Review: For pretty long time my hobby is photography. In digital age I must now depend (at rather old age 76) on digital darkroom. Which one? I first thought about upgrade of my old Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0, but the only solution was (and is) to b...   Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl Amazon Price: $9.86 Customer Review: This is a contemporary expressionistic/surrealistic view of a woman who investigates a dead man's family by tracing the information in his cell phone. There are some clever black comic moments, such as when the cell phone owner dies, dinner is exper...   The iPhone Book, Third Edition (Covers iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch)... by Scott Kelby, Terry White Amazon Price: $13.59 Customer Review: This is a GREAT book. It has pictures that show you how to use the IPhone. I refer to it ALL the time because the IPhone is complicated. I would recommend it to EVERY IPhone owner!!   iPhone SDK Application Development: Building Applications for the AppStore by Jonathan Zdziarski Amazon Price: $23.09 Customer Review: i am surprised by some of the reviews this book is getting. personally..i think is WONDERFUL book...BUT not for beginners. i think if you already have a handle on things, this book can REALLY push your understanding to another limit. if you want to b...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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