101st birthday today, and it nicely refers to Ms. Lamarr’s contributions to the fields of military and communications technology. Which were apparently considerable; and a reminder (if you needed one) that fascists are, generally speaking, also idiots. I’m sure that the Kriegsmarine would have loved to have had Ms. Lamarr’s frequency-hopping anti-jamming technology, but Adolf Hitler was too busy trying to force as many brilliant and politically unreliable scientists/engineers out of Europe as he could manage. Oft evil will evil mar…
Continue reading OK, this Google Doodle of Hedy Lamarr is pretty cool.