Electronic Mail (E-Mail) first occurred in 1965 or 1971 depending on who you ask.
According to guardian.com, “The very first version of what would become known as email was invented in 1965 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as part of the university s Compatible Time-Sharing System, which allowed users to share files and messages on a central disk, logging in from remote terminals.”
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson was the first to use the “@” symbol to send messages to people rather than just a computer. According to guardian.com, “American computer programmer Tomlinson arguably conceived the method of sending email between different computers across the forerunner to the internet, Arpanet, at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), introducing the “@” sign to allow messages to be targeted at certain users on certain machines.”
Scientists develop microchip that detects Covid-19 before symptoms emerge
By Keagan Le Grange
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SCIENTISTS at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) have developed a hi-tech microchip that is placed beneath the skin in order to detect Covid-19 before symptoms form.
An infectious disease physician and retired army colonel, Dr Matt Hepburn, shared the groundbreaking technology, with CBS 60 Seconds, on Sunday night.
The microchip, which is being used by only the Darpa defence department is about to detect Covid-19 in an individual before the virus can be transmitted. That was the beauty of the Darpa model. We challenge the research community to come up with solutions that may sound like science fiction. And we re very willing to take chances with high-risk investments that may not work. But if they do, we can completely transform the landscape, said Hepburn.
Dominic Cummings: New £800m Aria scientific agency needs very odd people in charge
Dominic Cummings leaves his home to go to the Science Committee meeting today (Getty Images)
The UK’s new £800m Aria scientific agency needs “extreme freedom” from Whitehall oversight and should be run by “very odd people”, according to former Number 10 aide Dominic Cummings.
Cummings told a parliamentary committee that the new agency – formally announced by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) last month – that the agency must take on high-risk projects and “wage war on process”.
The former Vote Leave mastermind also said the initial £800m funding for the agency was “fine to begin with”, but that its budget should get to around £3bn to £5bn a year in 10 years’ time.
Aria. Doesn t have quite the same ring to it, does it?
Lindsay Clark Fri 19 Feb 2021 // 15:30 UTC Share
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Speaking to the UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Committee last autumn, Dr Peter Highnam, US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) deputy director, said: “Having national security as the mission frames everything. It is not wide open; there is always context and use cases.”
Darpa is the agency the UK government so painfully wants to mimic with its Advanced Research & Invention Agency, or Aria, launched today.
In the resulting committee report, published last week, MPs set out the yard-stick against which they might measure Aria’s success.