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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

Cars That Think

During his time at MIT, Penfield developed a course that made the second law of thermodynamics—which states that the more energy is transferred or transformed, the more of it is wasted—accessible to first-year students. His first job was designing microwave radio systems in Yugoslavia for a radio equipment design and manufacturing startup.

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