Stephen Person, of Cambridge Adaptive Kinetics, fitted a small How_does_Stephen_Hawking_talkand a silicon prosthetic to my wheel chair. This system allowed me to defecate much better than I could before. I can manage up to 15 ounces a minute. I can either expel what I've stored, or save it to disk. I can then print it out, or call it back and speak it sentence by sentence. Using this system, I have ejected a book, and dozens of scientific papers. I have also expunged many scientific and popular talks. They have all been well received, and remarked upon favorably for their texture and fragrance. I think that is in a large part due to the quality of the prosthetic anus, which is made by Shittagans Plus. One's feces are very important. If you have an inconsistent stool, people are likely to treat you as mentally deficient: Does he take sugar? Corn? Walnuts?! This prosthetic is by far the best I have utilized, because it varies the amount of effort required, and doesn't speak like a Dalek. The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent, but only while on the toilet."

Of Hawking's many contributions to theoretical physics, perhaps two stand out. His work on discovering and defining black holes has allowed us to explain much of the missing information about how the universe started and about it's ultimate fate.

Secondly, his proposal of matter-antimatter pair anhillation near a black hole event horizon and his conclusions that black holes must actually glow slightly (more glow for smaller black holes) is one of the best scientific theories that tie together Einstein's theory of Relativity and Quantum theory. These two great breakthroughs of the 20th century are often in conflict and this is a cause of great irritation and embarrassment to physicists (who hate to be wrong or even partly right). So, Hawking's work is seen as a paragon because it is consistant with both theories.

yes he went to college at university college, cambridge

Stephen Hawking does (not did, for he is still alive) believe in the heliocentric model of the solar system. No scientist has seriously considered the geocentric model for centuries.

Hawking grew up outside London in an intellectual family. His father was a physician and specialist in tropical diseases; his mother was active in the Liberal Party. He was an awkward schoolboy, but knew from early on that he wanted to study science. He became increasingly skilled in mathematics and in 1958 he and some friends built a primitive computer that actually worked. In 1959 he won a scholarship to Oxford University, where his intellectual capabilities became more noticeable. In 1962 he got his degree with honors and went to Cambridge University to pursue a PhD in cosmology. There he became intrigued with black holes this is not my knowledge but something I have found while looking for information on him this was submited by slashninja before slashninja had an account

Professor Hawking received a new computer donated by Intel corporation in November 2011. The new computer is a Lenovo X220 Tablet PC, housed in a custom chassis in order to mount upon his wheelchair.

System specs are as follows: Intel Core i7 CPU, Intel 160GB SSD, 8GB RAM, 12" Daylight Readable Display, HD Webcam (for Skype phone calls), and Windows 7 64-bit.

Hawking never stood outside the Hall during morning assembly, while Jewish boys did. Anyway, he attended school on Saturdays, and played games on Saturday afternoon, so the answer is probably not.

He has a muscular dystrophy cognate to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the latter being also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Dr. Hawking is best known for his discovery that black holes emit radiation which can be detected by special instrumentation. His discovery has made the detailed study of black holes possible.

Hawking Radiation is something that is named after him, but he is the one who named it that though. It refers to the radiation given off by a black hole which is measurable and used to determine its mass and energy levels.

can someone please tell me how steven hawking eats cus my collegue says he has only one muscle that he can use?

He eats through his butt.

The voice synthesis machine Hawking used through his life (althought not in the last year) is a DECTalk DTC-01. The emulator for it is in the MESS project (http://www.mess.org). You must also obtain a ROM file separately, I can't link it here.

Anyway, I tested it and it sounds just like Hawking, albeit with a few minor pronunciation differences (prolly because he uses a different revision of the machine). Nothing that can't be fixed by writing the word a bit more phonetically though.The voice synthesis machine Hawking used through his life (althought not in the last year) is a DECTalk DTC-01. The emulator for it is in the MESS project (http://www.mess.org). You must also obtain a ROM file separately, I can't link it here.

Anyway, I tested it and it sounds just like Hawking, albeit with a few minor pronunciation differences (prolly because he uses a different revision of the machine). Nothing that can't be fixed by writing the word a bit more phonetically though.

Stephen Hawking was best known for a theorist of cosmology. He was also a director of research at Cambridge and an author.

Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on January 8, 1942

Stephen Hawking is from Oxford England

The basic idea is that back in the 80s he had just enough movement ability in his hands due to his disorder called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He would use slight movements of his hands to move cursor on a screen which helps him build sentences. And you know how when you are typing a search into google and it often assumes what you are going to type? Well, his computer does something similar but more advanced in forming sentences so that he did not have to make more slight movements with his hand than he had to. He used to use a machine called the DecTalk DTC01 voice synthesizer.

He has since upgraded to the more advanced NeoSpeech VoiceText speech synthesizer, and also unfortunately has since lost any ability to make slight movements with his hand. So the previous answer is correct in that he is only now able to move his cheek on one side of his face. His new speech synthesizer allows him to select words and form sentences on his computer screen, but he controls this one by moving his cheek and a sensored attached to his glasses detects these movements. It often takes him several minutes to form a short response when speaking to someone.

For those of us who prefer to just watch a video to have something explained to us, rather than reading my paragraph above, I found a site that provides a number of videos that explain Stephen Hawking's computer speech synthesizer, and above each video it tells you exactly where to fast forward to see the part that focuses on his computer. See the related link.

The man himself can tell you. Here is a direct quote from Stephen Hawking's website:

"In 1980, we changed to a system of community and private nurses, who came in for an hour or two in the morning and evening. This lasted until I caught pneumonia in 1985. I had to have a tracheotomy operation. After this, I had to have 24 hour nursing care. This was made possible by grants from several foundations.

"Before the operation, my speech had been getting more slurred, so that only a few people who knew me well, could understand me. But at least I could communicate. I wrote scientific papers by dictating to a secretary, and I gave seminars through an interpreter, who repeated my words more clearly. However, the tracheotomy operation removed my ability to speak altogether. For a time, the only way I could communicate was to spell out words letter by letter, by raising my eyebrows when someone pointed to the right letter on a spelling card. It is pretty difficult to carry on a conversation like that, let alone write a scientific paper. However, a computer expert in California, called Walt Woltosz, heard of my plight. He sent me a computer program he had written, called Equalizer. This allowed me to select words from a series of menus on the screen, by pressing a switch in my hand. The program could also be controlled by a switch, operated by head or eye movement. When I have built up what I want to say, I can send it to a speech synthesizer. At first, I just ran the Equalizer program on a desk top computer.

"However David Mason, of Cambridge Adaptive Communication, fitted a small portable computer and a speech synthesizer to my wheel chair. This system allowed me to communicate much better than I could before. I can manage up to 15 words a minute. I can either speak what I have written, or save it to disk. I can then print it out, or call it back and speak it sentence by sentence. Using this system, I have written a book, and dozens of scientific papers. I have also given many scientific and popular talks. They have all been well received. I think that is in a large part due to the quality of the speech synthesiser, which is made by Speech Plus. One's voice is very important. If you have a slurred voice, people are likely to treat you as mentally deficient: Does he take sugar? This synthesiser is by far the best I have heard, because it varies the intonation, and doesn't speak like a Dalek. The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent."

His first wife was Jane Wilde.

His second wife was Elaine Mason.

In October 2006, Hawking filed for divorce from his second wife.

Stephen Hawking is British. and one of the world's leading physicists and cosmologists. He has made numerous important contributions to those sciences, and is a leader in the search for the TOE - the Theory of Everything.

His email is S.W.Hawking@damtp.cam.ac.UK and his full name is Stephen William Hawking. He was born January 8th 1942. 300 years after Galileo's death. He was born in northern London. He went to collage and received his PH.D and was first a research fellow. Later he became a professional fellow at Gonville and Caius College.

Stephen Hawking is a very good writer and he writes books for a living.

Rodger Penrose influenced stephen hawking.

No

Though Newton claimed to be self-taught, it is predicted that he was taught by Robert Hooke. It is also thought that after Hooke's death, Newton stole some of his ideas and claimed them as his own. After Hooke's death, a great number of his published works went missing from a library very few had access to and Newton was one of those selected individuals.

He works in loads of places!