Main events of week on February 18-24

February 19: Beginning of an era of an audio recording

On Tuesday the Modern Medical Equipment 2013 conference will take place.

Also on February 19 - 20 in Moscow the annual forum "Development of Infokommunikation in Russia in the conditions of Transition to Information Society" will take place.

One more action of day - the congress Product Innovation (PI) 2013 - key vendor - an independent event of the PLM industry. Among stars at a conference one of founders of Apple Steve Wozniak and the expert in PLM, PDM and a CAD Martin Aygner.

On February 19, 1878 - 135 years ago - the American inventor Thomas Edison patented the device for mechanical recording and a sound playback which called a phonograph. This invention became the beginning of an era of an audio recording. Edison was so struck with opening that told: "I was not never so stunned in my life yet. I was always afraid of things which work from the first".

This day Dmitry Ananyev, the member of the Federation Council, the Chairman of the Committee of council for financial markets and currency circulation and also the co-owner (together with the brother Alexey Ananyev) Promsvyazbank, one of the largest Banks of Russia was born.

On February 19 also Oleg Gizatullin, the CEO, the chairman of the board of directors of Open Technologies company was born. In the company since 1998.

February 20: Windows Azure Summit

On February 20 Windows Azure Summit - a conference on a cloud platform of Windows Azure will take place. The conference will include four parallel tracks. Windows Azure as the platform of development, scenarios of use, business in a cloud, a cloud and Web.

The TOIR Consult company invites specialists of the enterprises to participate 20 in a seminar "Standard business management processes of a MRO" in Moscow.

February 21

On February 21 CNews invites to a conference "the Market of EDMS 2013: new requirements".

In Izhevsk the conference of club of Chief information officers of UR (Udm CIO Club) "IT infrastructure of the enterprise" will take place.

One more action of day - Cloud Services Russia 2013 – the conference devoted to services based on cloud computing.

February 23: Birthday of Michael Dell

On February 23 48 years are performed to Michael Dell, the American businessman, the founder and the permanent head of Dell corporation. In 19 years Michael Dell considered that training in college interferes it with computer business, gave up study and concentrated on development of the firm. By that moment when Michael Dell would have to graduate from college, sales to his company around the world grew to $70 million a year. Dell could earn a status equal to $12.3 billion (data of Forbes for the beginning of 2009).

On Saturday the birthday is celebrated by Dmitry Tarasov, the minister of information technologies and communications of Chelyabinsk region.

February 24: To Steve Jobs 57 would be performed

On February 24, 2013 to the legendary founder of Apple, the creator of devices who moved heaven and earth in the 21st century – the iPhone smartphone and the iPad tablet Steve Jobs 57 years would be performed. In 2011 he died after a long illness, having left behind the company which until recently had the largest capitalization in the world.

It is possible to study the complete list of events of this week here.