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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

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He published three books on the topic, including Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer. He wrote several papers on ethics and technology, as well as computer science, and he penned articles for IEEE Technology and Society Magazine and The Institute. Unger was dedicated to promoting ethics in engineering.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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His schooling in South Korea and at Columbia had primarily emphasized book learning and theory. During the third period, from 2000 on, industry seized the helm of semiconductor development. Since 2000, the country has been a major importer of South Korean chips. Favorite periodical: TIME magazine. Car: Hyundai Genesis.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian Consumers are to be offered incentives of up to £5,000 to purchase an electric car under government plans to be unveiled today that will also see the creation of electric car cities across the UK and the launch of large-scale experiments with ultra-green vehicles.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He authored or coauthored more than 1,000 papers and books on speech recognition, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing. Twenty-six editions of his book Digital Speech Processing, Synthesis, and Recognition were published between 1985 and 2001. Boehm’s honors included the 2000 IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. BRADLEY’S BACKGROUND IN SOLAR.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. Ironically, Adobe is now licensing its font technology to Linotype, and Linotype is converting its entire library of some 2000 fonts into PostScript representations.) No earlier technology had done them justice. 2, 1988, pp.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Like a lot of people, I've been thinking about trading in my car. The case, morally and even financially, for an all-electric car is becoming stronger and stronger. Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. car market. And yet, what about recharging?