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MARIAN CROAK
IT'S 6PM AND YOU FINALLY FINISHED ALL THE WORK YOU HAD DUE THIS EVENING. WHAT DO YOU DO?

Go back home to get into your Chelsea training bottoms, which you've never worn on any grounds remotely related to sports, ever.

Go to the gym for an entire everlasting hour.

RIGHT ANSWER!
You've worked hard enough all day. Now go get some rest like anyone mentally SANE would. I hate the gym.
WRONG ANSWER…
Are you not right in the head? Stop shoving the bloody Q-Tip so far up your brains. Get home like any relatively normal geazer ever would, maniac.
YOU FINALLY GET HOME AND YOU'VE GOT THE ENTIRE HOUSE TO YOURSELF TONIGHT. WHAT DO YOU DO RIGHTAWAY?

Get comfy on the settie and turn the telly on.

Start cooking a nice old veggie casserole.

RIGHT ANSWER!
That's the way, you absolute geazer. Enjoy the peace and quiet and soothe yourself in the gradual absorption of your cushions.
WRONG ANSWER…
Bredren just give yourself a rest for once nobody ain't no zarathustra get some chill for once come on.
AT LAST, THE TELEVISION UNIT. YOU'VE GOT ALL NIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU, WHAT'S YOUR FIRST CHOICE?

An unnanounced live broadcast from Haiti (we're in 2010, try and get your brains working…)

The inter-generational quest for America's greatest Idol.

AN UNPRECEDENTED EARTHQUAKE HAS THROWN HAITI INTO CHAOS. EVERY HELP COUNTS. YOU CAN HELP, WITH A SIMPLE SMS DONATION.

Make the difference.

YOUR SMS VOTE CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE IN ELECTING AMERICA'S GREATEST IDOL. ARE YOU READY TO RAISE YOUR VOICE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE CANDIDATE?

Make the difference.

MARIAN CROAK
is currently Vice-President of Engineering at Google. She has started her university cursus at Princeton, NJ before completing her doctorial studies at the University of Southern California in 1982, specializing in social psychology and quantitative analysis.

At the end of her studies, she was hired at AT&T's Bell Labs. One of her main projects was developing VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) which then became adopted globally. She has filed more than one hundred patents related to this technology, among her total of over two hundred patents.

Another patent that she has filed is the use of phone network to donate to crisis appeals. This was first developed when AT&T teamed up with American Idol to allow television viewers to vote for their favorite performer. 22% of the viewers learned to text to be able to make their voice heard in the show. This was in 2003. Two years later, the Hurricane Katrina wrecked the Gulf Coast. This is when she filed the patent for text-based donations. It all came to light in 2010, with the Haiti earthquake crisis, where text-based donations allowed to raise up to $30 million through different organisations.

Though the patent does not cover every possible use of the technology, AT&T has not tried to make it proprietary. Marian Croak has stated that "Everybody can use it. And I hope everybody uses it."
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Marian R. Croak is today Vice-President of Engineering at Google. She has started her university studies at Princeton University, NJ and has completed her PhD at the University of Southern California in 1982. She was then specialized primarily in social psychology and quantitative analysis.

At the end of her studies, she was hired at AT&T's Bell Labs. One of her main projects was developing VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), which became adopted globally. She has more than one hundred patents related to this technology, among all her patents, which add up to more than two hundred.

Another patent that she has filed is the utilisation of phone network services to donate to crisis appeals. This was first developped when AT&T had teamed up with American Idol to allow television viewers to vote for their favorite performer. 22% of the viewers learned to text to be able to make their voice heard in the show. This was in 2003.

Two years later, Hurricane Katrina wrecked the Gulf Coast. This is when she filed the patent for text-based donations. It all came to light in 2010, with the Haiti earthquake crisis, where text-based donations allowed to raise $30 million through different organisations. Though the patent does not cover every possible use of the technology, AT&T has not tried to make it proprietary. Marian Croak stated that "Everybody can use it. And I hope everybody uses it."
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Marian Rogers Croak is now Vice-President of Engineering at Google, and has been so since 2014. She led Google's service expansion into emerging markets, including managing the team who developed the initial communications technology for Project Loon which uses balloons to extend coverage.

She has started her university cursus at Princeton University, in New Jersey, before completing her doctorial studies at the University of Southern California, she was speacialized in social psychology and quantitative analysis.

At the end of her studies, she was hired at AT&T's Bell Labs. One of her main projects was developing VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), which has since become globally adopted. She has filed more than a hundred patents related to this technology, among her total of over two hundred patents.

Another patent that she has filed is the utilisation of phone network to donate to crisis appeals. This was first developed when AT&T teamed up with American Idol to allow television viewers to vote for their favorite performer. 22% of the viewers learned to text to be able to make their voice heard in the show.

Two years later, Hurricane Katrina wrecked the Gulf Coast. This is when she filed the patent for text-based donations. It all came to light in 2010, with the Haiti earthquake crisis, where text-based donations allowed to raise up to $30 million through several organisations.

Though the patent does not cover every possible use of the technology, AT&T not tried to make it proprietary.

"Everybody can use it. And I hope everybody uses it."