Mike Lazaridis, born March 14, 1961 in Istanbul, Turkey. Lazaridis studied electrical engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he formed Research in Motion, a wireless technology firm that developed the BlackBerry revolutionizing the communication industry. During his early life Lazaridis loved science and was always exploding with curiosity. Spending countless hours building radios, rockets, and many other things in the basement of his own home. He won an award at Windsor Public Library in Windsor, Ontario for reading every single scientific book. He was both a maker and a thinker taking all of the sciences along with multiple shop courses during his years in high school.
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Lazairdis co-founder of Blackberry which was formally known as Research in Motion (RIM) with his childhood best friend and fellow student Mr. Fregin invented the BlackBerry, with the profits made from a re-designed popular game Reach for the Loops. They created a new and so called revolutionary smartphone industry, and built Canada’s largest global tech business. They founded Research in Motion which was a business consulting electronics and computer science that later focused on developing a wireless transmission of data. Wireless data such as emails, text messages, and wireless terminals. Lazaridis and Fregin were later joined by a student from Waterloo University by the name of Michael Barnstijn, in 1969 the three young men were awarded a $600,000 contract by General Motors for creating Research in Motion. Till this day Blackberry is yet to hold Canada’s top tech spot. Lazairdis held many positions including Co-CEO and Co-Chairman from 1984 to 2012 and as well as Board vice Chair and Chair of the Innovation Committee …show more content…
Among his awards is a 1999 Academy Award and an Emmy Award for technical achievements and for Research in Motion’s role in investing a digital barcode reader that greatly increased the speed of film editing. In 2000 he was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Waterloo as well as a Doctors of Laws from McMaster University, the University of Windsor, and Laval University in 2005. Lazaridis and his colleague Gary Mousseau shared Canada’s most prestigious innovation prize, The Ernest C. Manning Principal Award in 2002 given by the Intelligent Community Forum. Aside from that he was also named Canada’s Nation Builder of the year by readers of the Globe and Mail which was also in 2002. He was listed on the Maclean’s Honour Roll as a distinguished Canadian in 2000 named as one of TIME’s 100 List of Most Influential People in 2005. Lazaridis was also appointed to the Order of Ontario. He was named Officer of the Order of Canada in 2006 and became a Fellow in both of the Royal Society in London and Canada in
Pierre Philippe Yves Elliot Trudeau, better known as Pierre Trudeau, was an author, a university professor, a lawyer and a politician. Through his political actions, as well as through his personality, he stimulated a great deal of emotions, both positive and negative, among the Canadian public. Thus making him a very memorable figure. He introduced important political initiatives, which strongly influenced many aspects of Canadian political and private life. His significance is still recognized by Canadians at present, which is illustrated by the fact that in 2004, he was selected as the
Mike Lazaridis is a famous Greek Canadian entrepreneur, business executive and philanthropist. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey on March 14th, 1961, and came to Canada at the age of 5, and was raised in Windsor, Ontario. As a child, Lazaridis was an overachiever. At the age of 12, he won a prize for reading every science book in the Windsor Public Library. He was captivated by science and how things worked; he and his friends spent hours in his basement building things such as rockets and radios. Mike Lazaridis is an Officer of the Order of Canada and Order of Ontario, was named Nation Builder of the Year in 2002 by the Globe and Mail, made the Time Top 100 List of Most Influential People in 2005. He was the founder and CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), which is known today as Blackberry.
Luis Walter Alvarez was born on June 13th in the year 1911 in San Francisco but at that time no one knew he was going to be a world renowned physicist. As a adolescent, his love for science, technology and machines was evident, but no one guessed he would make something out of it. He and his father (Walter C. Alvarez) built a radio when he was eleven, this was when the radio was still a new invention. Graduating from The University of Chicago in 1932 and earning his phD in 1936 was not the end of his scientific interest. Luis Walter Alvarez continued to study science and physics. He was credited with many necessary discoveries about subatomic particles for which he earned the Nobel Prize in physics. His work did not stop there. He was a co-developer in the creation of the “ground-control approach system” for aircraft during the 1940’s. Luis Walter Alverez had a very significant role in the development Manhattan Project, in which he suggested the technique used for the detonation of an atomic bomb. He was member of the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. On top of all this he held ownership of the patents for over 30 inventions including radar systems and the bubble chamber.
Robert Bruce Hoechner, a longtime musician and world traveler, died Friday, Feb. 5 in Elon, North Carolina. Hoechner, 21, died in an electrical fire at a local tanning salon near Elon University.
Could you ever imagine a life being a slave well this guy named Dred Scott just didn’t imagine it he was a slave and activist for rights and he just wanted to be free and that's just what he gets. So let me tell you how he became free and all the stuff he had to go through to become free. He belonged to many slave masters and eventually he fought for his freedom by suing in local courts. The Dred Scott case made it all the way to the United States Supreme Court and was the most important case in history.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.-- West Virginia University senior Josh Lambert was one of 30 kickers named to the 2016 Lou Groza Award watch list on Thursday.
Pierre was known to be “The best politician of Canada” both at home and abroad. Throughout his career he had many different jobs such as a Journalist, Screenwriter, Politician, Author, Professor, Actor, Jurist and not to mention Prime minister of Canada, throughout his educational life he gained the skills and knowledge for all these jobs and many more that could have come.
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Adrian Peterson, born in Palestine Texas, started out in his life having nothing and becoming one of the greatest all time running backs in the national football league {NFL}. Peterson grew up running, he loved to run, his grandfather called him ‘aa’ which meant ‘all day’, because he would be gone running all day. When Peterson graduated from high school he was signed to go to college and play the sport of football for the state of Oklahoma University, {OU}. In his sophomore year at ou Peterson became the first string running back.
It was Max Cipriani’s first day of tryouts for Dominion Middle School and he was eager to get going. Dominion was only about 5 minutes away from Max’s home by car. Mom, his brother Sam, and Max get there 10 minutes early to kick around for a bit. Max, having already met the coach from last soccer season just said hi and runs to play. He kicks the ball around with some friends from last season. They shoot around on Max, who was the substitute goalie from last year’s team. The sound of the soccer ball and being stopped was continuous. Boom, Clap. Max was a kangaroo, jumping back and forth to block the shots. A couple shots were blocked by the goal post.
Steve Lopez is a columnist, who makes a living by making deadlines. Life for him is a constant race against time, scarcely leaving time for family or friendships, until he meets Nathaniel. Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, is a homeless man who is severely mentally ill, but has an intriguing past, that allows Lopez to create many successful (probably his most successful) columns. Throughout his experiences with Ayers, not to mention his experiences in life, he has been constantly debating wheter or not what he was doing was right. “There is no such thing as a selfless act” is a completely true statement in this sense, seeing as Lopez created his most successful coulomb off of Ayer’s story and おはようございます、わたしわ おなまえわあなやです。わたしわ、すし を食べ ます。すし を 大子きですか?
When you think of New South Wales, the name Tommy Raudonikis almost always springs to mind. It’s hard to find anyone with so much passion for the Blues, as well as a fuelled hatred for Queensland as much as Raudonikis, who represented NSW primarily in the 1970’s. He has 22 games under his belt for the Blues, but 21 of them were before State of Origin officially began in 1980.
An inventor was born on November 6, 1861. Where the man was born was a Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The man's name was James A. Naismith. His parents were Margaret and John Smith. James was orphaned at an early life. He was brought up by his aunt and uncle and went Bennies Corners near Almonte. James later on graduated from the Almonte High School in Ontario in 1883. After graduating, James attended McGill University, Montreal. Since James had a great athletic ability, he was made to participate canadian football, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, etc. He was also a great gymnast and won many wicksteed medals. He earned a BA in Physical Education and a Diploma at the Presbyterian College, Montreal.
In allusion to Hugh Latimer’s famous quote, the old woman says “Play the man, Master Ridley,” before she strikes a match, setting herself and her books on fire. In the mid 1500s Queen Mary of England attempted to convert the newly rising Protestant ways back to traditional Roman Catholicism. People convicted of heresy were tried and burned at the stake. However, brave and courageous Protestants continued to practice and preach their religion despite the potential consequences.
Blackberry is a brand that was created by Research in Motion’s (RIM) Founder Mike Lazaridis in 1996, providing wireless web enabled devices across multiple networks. RIM is a Canadian based company founded in 1984 that formally worked