Items tagged with Paul Allen

by Shane McGlaun - Sun, Apr 14, 2019

World’s Largest Plane, Stratolaunch Roc Takes Flight Over California’s Mojave Desert

Stratolaunch is a company founded by the late Paul G. Allen that is trying to make it easier and less costly to put satellites into orbit. Sadly the late Paul Allen didn't live to see his dream take flight, however. Unlike Elon Musk's SpaceX , the way Stratolaunch plans to put satellites into orbit has nothing to do... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Sat, Jan 12, 2019

NVIDIA Opens AI Robotics Research Lab In Seattle To Explore Human-Robot Interactions

We tend to associate NVIDIA with graphics cards, and more specifically, the graphics processing units (GPUs) that go inside them, but the company has a much broader focus. For example, NVIDIA is heavily invested in artificial intelligence technologies. As part of that, NVIDIA recently opened up a robotics lab in... Read more...

by Ray Willington - Fri, Apr 19, 2013

Route 66 Motor Lodge Where Bill Gates and Paul Allen Started Microsoft Being Redeveloped

When it comes to technology history, there are few names bigger than Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Paul Allen. In the early days, the latter two got together in a Route 66 motor lodge in order to work while launching Microsoft. The Albuquerque-based hotel has sat relatively dormant for years now, but as consumer... Read more...

by Rob Williams - Wed, Oct 03, 2012

Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen Discusses His Windows 8 Complaints

Don't particularly enjoy some of the design decisions Microsoft has made with Windows 8? You're in good company - even Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen finds things to complain about, especially with regards to multi-monitor usage. One of the more common complaints about Windows 8 made by the general public is... Read more...

by Michael Santo - Tue, Nov 17, 2009

Microsoft Co-Founder Sees Recurrence of Cancer

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft in 1975 with Bill Gates, has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL). This is a recurrence of the disease; Allen previously fought and beat NHL after being diagnosed in 1983, the year he left Microsoft.Since leaving Microsoft, Paul Allen has purchased three pro sports teams: the NFL's... Read more...

by Michael Santo - Fri, Apr 04, 2008

April 4, 1975: Bill Gates, Paul Allen Form ...

There once was this little company, formed by these two geeks named Paul Allen and Bill Gates ...Bill Gates and Paul Allen create a partnership called Micro-soft. It will grow into one of the largest U.S. corporations and place them among the world's richest people.Gates and Allen had been buddies and fellow Basic programmers at Lakeside School... Read more...