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Friday, November 16th 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Lillian Hoddeson, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana
Subject: Analogy and Inventive Style: Stanford Ovshinsky's Radical Approach to Inventing Alternative Energy Technologies
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Examining the American inventor Stanford Ovshinsky's fruitful analogy between a human nerve cell and an adaptive machine and the steps he took from this analogy to his “threshold” switch and subsequent inventions offers new perspectives on analogy as a motor of invention.
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