Physics Profile: "OS/2 Fatal Error: The Stephan Von Molnar Story"
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This video chronicles the life and achievements of Stephan Von Molnar, a scientist and manager at the IBM T. J. Watson laboratory, as seen through the eyes of friends and colleagues. His achievements in science, most notably with the physics of magnetic semiconductors (now known as spintronics) was offset and rather diminished by the consequences of his obsession with IBM's OS/2 operating system. Many historians have speculated about what kind of technological world we might inhabit today, had his obsession become reality.This video chronicles the life and achievements of Stephan Von Molnar, a scientist and manager at the IBM T. J. Watson laboratory, as seen t...all »This video chronicles the life and achievements of Stephan Von Molnar, a scientist and manager at the IBM T. J. Watson laboratory, as seen through the eyes of friends and colleagues. His achievements in science, most notably with the physics of magnetic semiconductors (now known as spintronics) was offset and rather diminished by the consequences of his obsession with IBM's OS/2 operating system. Many historians have speculated about what kind of technological world we might inhabit today, had his obsession become reality.«
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