No More Laughing at the Deaf Boy
A Technological Adventure between Silicon Valley and the Alps
Person: Ball, Geoffrey R.
Year: 2011
Language: English
Scope: 288 p.
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- Contents:
- Geoffrey Ball's extraordinary adventure in technology began in the legendary Silicon Valley of California and ultimately led him to the mountains of Austria, where he now lives and continues his work. Even as a child, Ball knew that sign language, conventional hearing aids, and lipreading were not for him, so he decided to find a cure for his deafness. Never letting his disability stand in his way, he became a kind of modern Renaissance man with wide-ranging interests and abilities, all coupled with an undeniable talent for entrepreneurship and invention. Ball introduces us to family and friends, surfing buddies and lab rats, business partners and fellow inventors, computer and Internet legends, the larger-than-life mentor who gave him his start, and the woman who ultimately saved his brainchild. He intersperses insights into technology and business with personal anecdotes and fascinating accounts of successes, failures and near misses along the way.
Geoffrey R. Ball wurde 1964 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, geboren und wuchs in Silicon Valley auf. Bereits als Kind wurde Schwerhörigkeit bei ihm festgestellt. Mittlerweile zählt er zu den führenden Forschern auf dem Gebiet der Hörimplantate. Ball ist Gründungsmitglied mehrerer Firmen und ist heute Unternehmer und Erfinder. Die von ihm entwickelten Mittelohrimplantate werden in mehr als 60 Ländern eingesetzt. Ball lebt mit seiner Familie in der Nähe von Innsbruck.
Title Information
Title: No More Laughing at the Deaf Boy
Person: Ball, Geoffrey R.
Publisher : Haymon
ISBN: 9783852187525
Category: Non-Fiction & Guidebooks, Health, Biographies & Memories
File size: 3 MB
Format: ePub
Loan period: 21 days