The Absent-Minded Professor was one of the first Disney films to be colorized (for the 1986 video release), and, along with 1959's "The Shaggy Dog" and 1963's "Son of Flubber", it is one of Disney's few black-and-white films to be produced after 1941. Professor Brainard (Fred MacMurray) (pronounced BRAY-nard) is an absent-minded professor of physical chemistry at Medfield College who invents a substance that gains energy when it strikes a hard surface. This discovery follows some blackboard scribbling in which he reverses a sign in the equation for enthalpy to energy plus pressure times volume. Brainard names his discovery "Flubber", which is a
Martha Rogers (professor) Peppers. Peppers and Rogers are often credited with having launched the CRM revolution with their first book, "The One to One Future: Building Relationships One Customer at a Time" (1993). Inc. Magazine managing editor George Gendron called this book "one of the two or three most important business books ever written", while Business Week called it the "bible of the new marketing". In 2011, the authors released a second, updated edition of their textbook, "Managing Customer Relationships: A Strategic Perspective". In 2010, Rogers married television personality and talk show host Dick Cavett in New Orleans, Louisiana. Martha Rogers (professor) Martha