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ASAP, PSAP, PSIM, SIAC …

At first it just looked like a big bowl of alphabet soup, but as the “new guy” at Security Systems News, I'm starting to get my head around it. In the first few weeks at my post I've had a chance to hear from some of the organizational leaders in the industry—Ed Bonifas, Stan Martin, Bob Bean—as well as many others who have helped me get my feet wet. There's long list of folks who I haven't talked with, though, and a long list of companies that I'd like to know more about, so I have some work to do.

This blog is part of that process, and it would be great to hear from those in the know if I don't dial you up first. Any industry developments, large or small, count me in: [email protected], or 207-846-0600, Ext. 254. I look forward to getting to know everyone.

On the email front: There was a real gem circulating among CSAA members recently about Hedy Lamarr, the Hollywood siren and screen legend. It turns out she was also quite the inventor, co-patenting spread spectrum radio, a technology that would eventually lead to today's cellphones, Wi-Fi and GPS. And did I mention her torpedo guidance system for the U.S. Navy?

L.A. Times writer Adam Tschorn said it would be like crediting Farrah Fawcett for developing Google's proprietary search algorithm. But truth is stranger than fiction. Richard Rhodes chronicles Lamarr's little-known work in his new book, “Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World.”

And that's Hedy, not Hedley, “Blazing Saddles” fans …

 

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