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Today, February 4, 2022, three years ago today, independent video game developer Respawn Entertainment released the game Apex Legends, published by EA, a world-renowned interactive entertainment software company. After the game was released, it received positive reviews from players. Eight hours after release, 1 million players, 2.5 million players after 24 hours, and 100 million in April 2021. In the history of video games, there is another work also published by EA that was born today, which is the best-selling computer game in the history of games, "The Sims".
February 4, 1921: Lotfali Zadeh, a pioneer in fuzzy theory of artificial intelligence, is born
Source: Wikipedia
Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh (born February 4, 1921) is an American logician and mathematician. Born in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, Lutfi established fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic in 1965 to study the application of fuzzy logic. In 1991 he introduced the concept of soft computing. In 1996, it was proposed to use single words and perceptual calculations. Later research focuses on the application of soft computing in natural language processing and the semantic computation of language.
Lutefi, who had an Azerbaijani father and a Russian mother, grew up in Iran and moved to the United States in 1944. He is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School and director of the Berkeley Institute for Soft Computing. His early years contributed greatly to traditional cybernetics, including linear systems theory and z-transformations. Since publishing his first article on fuzzy sets in 1965, he has worked to develop and promote fuzzy logic.
Lutefi died at his home in Berkeley, California, on September 6, 2017, at the age of 96. On September 29, 2017, he was buried in the "Medal of Honor Laneway" in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he was born. A month before his death, the University of Tehran released a false report that Lutfi had died, but withdrew it a few days later. According to Google Scholar, as of November 2021, Lutefi's paper has been cited at least 269091 times in academic works, and it has been extremely influential. On November 30, 2021, Google made a Google Doodle for Lutefi.
Source: Wikipedia
February 4, 1943: Ken Thompson, the father of Unix, is born
February 4, 1943. Kenneth Lane Thompson was born, an American computer scientist and engineer, commonly referred to in hacker culture circles as "ken." While at Bell Labs, Thompson designed and implemented the Unix operating system; he created B, the predecessor of C; and he was one of the creators and developers of the Plan 9 operating system. He received the 1983 Turing Award along with Dennis Ritchie. In 2006, Thompson joined Google and co-designed the Go language; in addition, Ken Thompson worked on regular expressions and UTF-8 encoding, improved the text editor QED, and created the ed editor. He built the "Belle", a computer dedicated to playing chess, and created the endgame database.
Ken Thompson was born in New Orleans, USA. Someone once asked him how he learned to program, and he said that he was only fascinated by logic, and even in elementary school, he studied binary arithmetic problems. In 1960, Ken Thompson enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in electrical engineering, and in 1966 earned a master's degree in electrical engineering. His mentor was the American mathematician and computer scientist Elwyn Berlekamp. In 1966, Ken Thompson joined Bell Labs. He was involved in the Multics Systems project developed by Bell Labs in collaboration with MIT and General Electric.
Later, Bell Labs withdrew from the Multics program; Thompson and Dennis Ritchie led some bell lab members to develop on PDP-7 computers, implementing file systems, processes, device files, command-line interpreters, and small utilities. In 1970, at the suggestion of Brian Collingham, the system was eventually named "Unix", corresponding to the name "Multics". After completing the basic work of unix system development, Thompson felt that Unix systems needed a system-level programming language, so he created the B language. Ritchie later created the C language based on the B language.
After entering the '70s, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie continued to collaborate on the Unix operating system. The duo were so influential in the development of Research Unix that Douglas McIlroy later wrote, "You can safely add the names of Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson to almost all of your contributions." In a 2011 interview, Thompson said he wrote the first version of Unix, after which Ritchie began advocating for the system and helping with its development. The development of the Unix system also contributed to the development of the C language. In Ken Thompson's words, the C language "evolved with a rewrite of the Unix system, and in this way, it became the perfect choice for system programming." ”
In the second half of 2000, Thompson left Bell Labs, where he had been for nearly 40 years, to work for Entrisphere in the United States. He resigned in 2006 and joined Google. He then co-designed the Go language with Both Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer. Speaking about his own development process, he said all three of them started from scratch. Out of their aversion to C++, the three discussed every feature of the language and addressed shortcomings in other languages. In a 2009 interview, Thompson said he was now using a Linux-based operating system.
Source: Wikipedia, Baidu Encyclopedia
February 4, 2000: EA releases the best-selling PC game in history, The Sims
The Sims is a series of life simulation video games developed by game company Maxis and published by electronic arts (EA), a world-renowned interactive entertainment software company. The series has sold nearly 200 million copies worldwide and is one of the best-selling video game series of all time. The games in the Sims series are mostly sandbox games because they don't have any clear goals. Players create virtual people called "The Sims" and place them in houses to help channel their emotions and satisfy their desires. Players can place their Sims in prefabricated houses or build them themselves. Each subsequent expansion pack and game in the series enhances what players can do with their Sims.
Game creator Will Wright lost his home in the 1991 Oakland fire and began rebuilding his life. He was inspired by the incident and planned to develop a "virtual doll's cabin". In the process of replacing his house, furniture and family property, he began to consider turning the experience into a game. When Will Wright came to Maxis' board with his ideas, they were skeptical of the game's success and refused to provide Wright with any support or funding. When EA acquired Maxis in 1997, EA's board of directors was clearly more convinced of Wright's plans. Thanks to the success of SimCity, this made EA aware of the profit prospects of developing a simulation series of games.
Will Wright once pointed out that the Sims series of games is actually a satire on American consumer culture. In developing the Sims series, Will Wright drew on the 1977 architecture and urban design book A Pattern Language, the American psychologist Abraham Maslow's 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation, and Charles Hampton-Turner's Maps of the theory Mind) to build the artificial intelligence in the game.
The success of the Sims series has led to several Guinness World Records certifications, including "Most Expansion Packs for a Videogame Series" and "Best Selling PC Game Series" as of 2017. As of October 2019, the cumulative total sales of all games in the Sims series exceeded $5 billion, and this work inspired many creators to make life simulation games fun for players around the world.
Source: Wikipedia, Baidu Encyclopedia, EA official website
February 4, 2004: Facebook goes live
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Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg co-founded it with Harvard college classmates and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskowitz, and Chris Hughes. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but gradually expanded to other North American universities, and since 2006, anyone over the age of 13 can join. As of 2020, Facebook claims to have 2.8 billion monthly active users, ranking seventh in global internet usage. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s.
Users can access Facebook from devices with internet connections, such as PCs, tablets and smartphones. After registration, users can create profiles that display information about themselves. They can post text, photos, and multimedia that they share with any other user who agrees to be their "friends" or make it public through different privacy settings. Users can also communicate directly with each other via Facebook Messenger, join common interest groups, and receive notifications about their Facebook friends' activity and the pages they follow. Facebook does not yet have a unified Chinese translation, the official name is mostly the original Facebook (or simply FB), but Facebook will occasionally use the name "Facebook Anniversary" to commemorate the day users join Facebook, if users log in to Facebook on the same day, they have the opportunity to see the "Facebook People Anniversary" celebration clip issued by Facebook. In China, most news outlets simply call it Facebook.
Facebook, formerly known as thefacebook, started out as an intramural site, with enrollment limited to Harvard students, and later expanded to other Ivy League colleges and universities. Later, the Facebook changed its name to Facebook and quickly occupied major universities in Europe and the United States. Today, Facebook has grown to become the world's largest social networking service and social media site. The World Wide Web ends siloed services and opens up a new world, but it is not a single community. New web-based services such as MySpace and Friendster are emerging, and they are all acutely aware that whoever succeeds in creating that sense of community wins a huge opportunity. One of the most successful is Facebook. Founded in 2004, Facebook has had more members of its community than it did in 2000, and no matter what the situation is, it has changed an era.
Source: Wikipedia, Baidu Encyclopedia, Silicon Valley Fire
February 4, 2014: Satya Nadella takes over as CEO of Microsoft
Born on January 6, 1967, Satya Nadella worked as a technician at Sun Microsystems before joining Microsoft in 1992, eventually becoming head of Microsoft's Enterprise & Cloud Computing Division, and as vice president of Microsoft's Online Research and Development Division and Microsoft Commercial Division. He was credited for helping bring Microsoft's databases, Windows Server, and developer tools to his Azure cloud. Revenue from cloud services grew from $16.6 billion when he took office in 2011 to $20.3 billion in June 2013.
On February 4, 2014, Nadella was announced as Microsoft's new CEO, the third CEO in the company's history after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Nadella overhauled Microsoft's corporate culture, emphasizing working with competitors during his tenure at Microsoft, including Apple, Salesforce, IBM, and Dropbox. In contrast to Microsoft's previous campaign against the Linux operating system, Nadella declared that "Microsoft loves Linux" and enrolled Microsoft in 2016 as a Platinum Member of the Linux Foundation. At Salesforce's annual marketing conference, Nadella pulled out an iPhone and declared it an "iPhone Pro" in full view of everyone because it had all of Microsoft's software and apps installed in it. Microsoft and Apple have been fighting each other for nearly 40 years, so much so that people forget that they have been developing software for the Mac since 1982.
Under Nadella's leadership, Microsoft revised its mission statement to "make greater achievements for everyone and every organization on the planet." He orchestrated the cultural shift at Microsoft by emphasizing empathy, collaboration, and a "growth mindset." He transformed Microsoft's corporate culture into one that emphasizes continuous learning and growth. In addition to corporate culture changes, Microsoft also underwent a major reshuffle, with a number of management changes, and the departure of two executive vice presidents, Tony Bates and Tami Reller. In the ever-changing world of technology, Nadella is like Liu Bei in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", since he became CEO, Microsoft has acquired Mojang and Github, and the stock price has tripled by September 2018, with an annual growth rate of 27%, it can be said that Nadella has reshaped Microsoft with a unique affinity.
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