“I had always wanted to have this all working in time to share my daughter”
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Philippe Kahn
Philippe Kahn is a French engineer, entrepreneur, and founder of four technology companies: Borland, Starfish Software, LightSurf Technologies, and Fullpower Technologies. Kahn is credited with creating the first camera phone, being a pioneer for wearable technology intellectual property, and is the author of dozens of technology patents covering Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (…
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business · French entrepreneur and camera phone creator (born 1952) · entrepreneur · computer scientist · also Philippe Kahn, Kahn
Born 16 March 1952 · Q1373386
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2017· 1 entry
Subconscious Films created a short film recreating the day that Philippe instantly shared the first camera-phone photo of the birth of his daughter Sophie
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2016· 1 entry
Time magazine included Kahn's first camera phone photo in their list of the 100 most influential photos of all time
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2015· 1 entry
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,853 times.
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2005· 2 entries
LightSurf was acquired by Verisign for US$300 million
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Provides a patented ecosystem for wearable and Internet of Things sensor-fusion solutions supporting networks of sensors
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1997· 1 entry
Kahn created the first camera phone solution sharing pictures instantly on public networks
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1995· 1 entry
By Philippe Kahn as a spin-off from the Simplify business unit from Borland and Kahn's severance from Borland
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1990· 1 entry
Published “PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF PERSONAL ENGAGEMENT AND DISENGAGEMENT AT WORK.” in Academy of Management Journal — cited 11,072 times.
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1982· 1 entry
(acquired by Micro Focus in 2009), Starfish Software, founded in 1994 (acquired by Motorola in 1998, and subsequently Google in 2011), LightSurf Technologies, founded in 1998 (acquired by Verisign in 2005), and Fullpower
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1957· 1 entry
Philippe Kahn was raised solely by his mother
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-03-16.
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1942· 1 entry
For being Lieutenant in the French Resistance, she was 21 years old when she was sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp
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