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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Players piloted a Cessna 182 in four real-world areas, including Chicago and Seattle. The hard work came to fruition in Flight Simulator 2000 , which reached a technical milestone: It mapped the entire planet in 1-kilometer blocks. Scot Bayless, the studio manager overseeing the team, says an early demo left Bill Gates stunned.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

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Even before I could get into the walkway which connects the bus stations, I found a bus going to Hosur via Electronic City. Dinkar’s previous company had been providing a lot of consulting in the EV space, so he already has a good connect with component manufacturers. The ticket was a reasonable Rs.

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John Brooks Slaughter: Courageous Advocate for Diversity in STEM

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He became my advisor, and he was a friend, so that made him a very good connection,” Slaughter says. He was recruited to become director of the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington , in Seattle. He also was fortunate to have another advocate there, a coworker from Convair who had become a professor. “He