Dies

Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft Columbia in 60 miles above the moon orbit while crewmembers Neil Armstrong and Col. Buzz Aldrin were the first men to walk on the lunar surface, died Wednesday at a hospice facility in…

John C. Martin, who became a billionaire by developing and commercializing a single-dose daily pill that turned HIV into a manageable disease and popularized another drug to cure hepatitis C, died on March 30th in Palo Alto, California .…

Mr. Vixie asked Mr. Kaminsky if he had a solution in mind. "He said," We're going to get all DNS software vendors to coordinate a fix, implement it at the same time, and keep it secret until I present my results to Black Hat, "Vixie said,…

W. Galen Weston, a polo partner of Prince Charles who remodeled and expanded the international food empire founded by his grandfather, a baker, and then collected luxury department stores, died on April 12 at his Toronto home. He was 80…

PCR technology, which requires cycles of extreme heating and cooling, can multiply small segments of DNA millions or even billions of times in a short period of time. It has proven crucial in many ways, including identifying DNA at a crime…

MADRID - Mariano Puig, who helped transform his family-owned Spanish perfume maker into an international fashion house that includes the Paco Rabanne, Nina Ricci, Carolina Herrera and Jean Paul Gaultier brands, died in Barcelona on April…

Dr. Geschke had the opportunity to “look around the corner,” said Shantanu Narayen, the current CEO of Adobe. "Civilization is all about written material," he said. "Chuck and John brought this into the modern age."Charles Matthew…

His marriage to Mrs. Senior ended in divorce, as did his second to Patricia Aburdene. He and his daughter are survived by his third wife, Doris (Dinklage) Naisbitt; his sons James, David and John; another daughter, Nana Naisbitt; a…

Isamu Akasaki, a Japanese physicist who helped develop blue light emitting diodes, a breakthrough in LED design that earned him a Nobel Prize and changed the way the world is lit, died Thursday in a hospital in Nagoya, Japan. He was 92…

Yehuda Ben-Yishay was born on February 11, 1933 in Cluj, a city in the Transylvania region in western Romania. His father, Chaim Ben-Yishay, was a businessman; his mother Leah (Finkelstein) Ben-Yishay was a seamstress.His family survived…