{"id":40419,"date":"2012-01-02T18:58:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T16:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=40419"},"modified":"2012-01-02T18:58:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T16:58:31","slug":"stephen-hawking-looking-for-techie-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/40419-stephen-hawking-looking-for-techie-assistant.html","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking looking for techie assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World renowned physicist <a title=\"Stephen Hawking\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/392445-Stephen-Hawking\">Stephen Hawking<\/a> is looking for a technical assistant to aide him with day to day tasks, as well as repairing and improving the customised hardware found in Hawking\u2019s motorised wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>The more mundane tasks include maintaining travel schedules and preparing lecture graphics, though the candidate must be able to &#8220;develop and maintain&#8230; Professor Hawking&#8217;s communication and speech systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Applicants will be required to repair and service the systems without any guidelines or documentation, so high level knowledge of electronics as well as computer literacy are required.<\/p>\n<p>The job hasn\u2019t been officially posted yet, however prospective candidates are able to pre-submit their applications for filtering candidates for the final job posting.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"The Verge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2011\/12\/29\/2668408\/stephen-hawking-technical-assistant-speech-system\" target=\"_blank\">The Verge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hawking is looking for a technical assistant to help maintain and improve his speech and control systems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7709],"class_list":["post-40419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-stephen-hawking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40459,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40419\/revisions\/40459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}