Peter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, dismissive industry and the taxman.
The findings were striking. Regular internet users had only a 1.54 percent risk of developing dementia, while those who did not use the internet faced a much higher risk of 10.45 percent. When ...
A 2023 paper published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, however, brought another variable in: internet use. The study, which looked at 18,154 dementia-free adults aged 50-65 over ...
British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of 86, after a nearly 50-year career at UCL. A few years before he died, he was ...