1. Click on next slide to make first burgundy triangle appear. There are four all
together.
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2. Click for next Triangle
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3. Click for next triangle
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4. Click for next triangle
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5. This is the final triangle. Next slide is outline slide.
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10. Bullets are animated on this slide. First bullet and photo will appear
automatically. You’ll need to do mouse clicks to get the other two to appear.
After the third bullet appears, you’ll need to mouse click one last time to get
to next slide.
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11. Bullets are animated on this slide. First bullet and photos will appear
automatically. You’ll need to do mouse clicks to get the next two to appear.
After the third bullet appears, you’ll need to mouse click one last time to get
to next slide.
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12. Bullets are animated on this slide. First bullet and photo will appear
automatically. You’ll need to do mouse clicks to get the next to appear. After
the second bullet appears, you’ll need to mouse click one last time to get to
next slide.
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13. Bullets are animated on this slide. First bullet and photo will appear
automatically. You’ll need to do mouse clicks to get the other one to appear.
After the second bullet appears, you’ll need to mouse click one last time to
get to next slide.
“New Line” Industries – qualified as technology­producing industries
including chemicals, electronics, communications, insurance, real estate,
and health, business and legal services.
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17. NCNI – NC Networking Initiative, a continuing collaborative effort of Duke, NCSU,
UNC­Chapel Hill and MCNC to deploy leading edge networking technologies and
facilitate network­enabled research. NCNI was created in 1998 to give Research
Triangle University partners and industries a competitive advantage.
National Lambda Rail – was created to allow the Triangle consortium to use the
existing local infrastructure to deliver connectivity to the campus’ doorstep. National
LambdaRail (NLR) is a major initiative of U.S. research universities and private
sector technology companies to provide a national scale infrastructure for research
and experimentation in networking technologies and applications.
Abilene Network – is the US high­performance backbone network created by the
internet2 community. Over 220 member institutions participate in Abilene, mostly
universities with some corporate and affiliate institutions.
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21. Company names are animated. They will appear automatically. You’ll need to
mouse click after Bayer CropScience appears to go to the next slide.
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35. Nobel Prizes:
Dr. George H. Hitchings: Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine in
1988.
Gertrude B. Elion: Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine in 1988.
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, 1996: News & Observer, Raleigh, NC.
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37. Inventions will appear automatically. You will need to mouse click after “UPC
Barcode” to go to next slide
AstroTurf: was invented at The Chemstrand Company, a subsidiary of
Monsanto Industries in the 1960s. The patent for AstroTurf was filed from
Chemstrand’s facilities in Research Triangle Park in 1965.
CtrlAltDelete: was invented in Research Triangle Park by an IBM employee
named David Bradley in the early 1980s.
3D Ultrasound: Was developed by Olaf von Ramm with the Pratt School of
Engineering at Duke University in 1987.
Taxol: is a drug used in the treatment of cancer, discovered at RTI
International in 1967. The license to commercialize and market Taxol is held
by Bristol­Myers Squibb Co.
Cochlear Implants: RTI's scientists and engineers have received
international recognition for their development of an innovative approach to
speech processing in 1987. Known as continuous interleaved sampling, this
approach dramatically improved the performance of cochlear implants and is
now used by all major implant manufacturers.
AZT: Is the first antiretroviral drug approved for treatment of HIV. scientists in
Burroughs Wellcome Co. started working on it as an AIDS drug in 1985. The
FDA approved the drug for use against HIV, AIDS and pre­AIDS illness in
1987, and then as a preventive treatment in 1990.
UPC Barcode: In 1971, George Laurer with IBM was given the task to
design a bar code to be suitable for the grocery industry. In May of 1973,
IBM’s proposal was accepted and in 1976, George Laurer’s UPC patent was
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38. The four bullets are animated. You’ll need to mouse click to get each of them
to appear. The next slide is the final one with your contact information.
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39. Final slide.
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