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MARCH 24, 2022

Estrin, a computer science professor at Cornell Tech , in New York City, founded the school’s Public Interest Tech Initiative to give students that opportunity. In 1985 she joined the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles, as a computer science professor.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The 60-hertz standard (or 50 hertz in most of the rest of the world) is taken for granted today, but in the early days of electrification—before the invention of the master station clock—the standard was seldom standard. Until the late 1940s, his company’s clocks regulated over 95 percent of U.S. electricity lines. Electric Time Co.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. While working toward his Ph.D. You’re crazy.”

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