[PLUG] [OT] Women in Computing

Guy Hammer guyh at aracnet.com
Tue Sep 3 22:20:57 UTC 2002


On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Richard Seymour wrote:

> Radio frequency hopping to guide torpedos during the war:

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> Interesting, but not directly computer related nonetheless

Ah, but it is. The frequency hopping technique used by 802.11 wireless
networking can be directly traced back to the torpedo tecnology.

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