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Date: April 22, 2004 5:17:12 AM GMT+03:00
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Subject: Invisible Black man..
<x-tad-bigger>> Subject: Invisible Black Man</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>> FYI</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>>> Dr. Mark Dean</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>> "America's High Tech "Invisible Man"</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> By Tyrone D. Taborn</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>> You may not have heard of Dr. Mark Dean. And you aren't alone. But</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> almost everything in your life has been affected by his work.</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>> See, Dr. Mark Dean is a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is in the</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> National Hall of Inventors. He has more than 30 patents pending. He is a</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> vice</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> president with IBM. Oh, yeah. And he is also the architect of the</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> modern-day personal computer. Dr. Dean holds three of the original nine</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> patents on the computer that all PCs are based upon. And, Dr. Mark Dean</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> is an African American.</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>> So how is it that we can celebrate the 20th anniversary of the IBM</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> personal computer without reading or hearing a single word about him?</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> Given all of the pressure mass media are under about negative portrayals</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> of African Americans on television and in print, you would think it</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> would be a slam dunk to highlight someone like Dr. Dean.</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>> Somehow, though, we have managed to miss the shot. History is cruel</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> when it comes to telling the stories of African Americans. Dr. Dean</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>isn't</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>> the first Black inventor to be overlooked. Consider John Stanard,</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> inventor</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> of the refrigerator, George Sampson, creator of the clothes dryer,</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> Alexander Miles and his elevator, Lewis Latimer and the electric lamp.</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> All of these inventors share two things:</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>> One, they changed the landscape of our society; and, two, society</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> relegated them to the footnotes of history. Hopefully, Dr. Mark Dean</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> won't go away as quietly as they did. He certainly shouldn't.</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> Dr. Dean helped start a Digital Revolution that created people like</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> Microsoft's</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> Bill Gates and Dell Computer's Michael Dell. Millions of jobs</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> in information technology can be traced back directly to Dr. Dean.</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>> More important, stories like Dr. Mark Dean's should serve as</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> inspiration for African-American children. Already victims of the</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> "Digital Divide" and failing school systems, young, Black kids might</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> embrace technology with more enthusiasm if they knew someone like</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> Dr. Dean already was leading the way.</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>> Although technically Dr. Dean can't be credited with creating the</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> computer -- that is left to Alan Turing, a pioneering 20th-century</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>English</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> mathematician, widely considered to be the father of modern</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> computer science -- Dr. Dean rightly deserves to take a bow for the</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> machine</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> we use today. The computer really wasn't practical for home or small</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> business use until he came along, leading a team that developed the</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> interior architecture (ISA systems bus) that enables multiple devices,</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> such as modems and printers, to be connected to personal computers.</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>> In other words, because of Dr. Dean, the PC became a part of our daily</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> lives. For most of us, changing the face of society would have been</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> enough. But</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> not for Dr. Dean. Still in his early forties, he has a lot of inventing</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> left in</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> him.</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>> He recently made history again by leading the design team responsible</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> for creating the first 1-gigahertz processor chip. It's just another</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>huge</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> step in</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> making computers faster and smaller. As the world congratulates itself</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> for</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> the new Digital Age brought on by the personal computer, we need to</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> guarantee that the African-American story is part of the hoopla</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> surrounding</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> the most stunning technological advance the world has ever seen.</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> We cannot afford to let Dr. Mark Dean become a footnote in history.</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>> He is well worth his own history book.</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>> PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO EVERY BLACK PERSON YOU KNOW</x-tad-bigger>
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