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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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Gerald Estrin led the development of the WEIZAC , the first digital electronic computer made in the Middle East, and he helped found the computer science department at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1985 she joined the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles, as a computer science professor.

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Cybersecurity Gaps Could Put Astronauts at Grave Risk

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Saadia Pekkanen is the founding director of the University of Washington’s Space Law, Data and Policy Program. Hope of humanity’s survival dwindled after brute force failed to thwart the attackers.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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9 ] In addition, the complex, deliberate, and lengthy publishing cycle of the IPCC’s Assessment Reports—which have so far been produced in 1990, 1995, 2001, and 2007—has not kept pace with the abrupt acceleration of many key indicators of climate change.

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EP29LPSP: Applications in Plasma Physics, Astronomy, and Highway Engineering

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In over a dozen published research articles, patents, and manufacturers' specifications, scientists and engineers have identified EP29LPSP for use in their applications due to its unparalleled performance in one or more areas. 00, WP1995, Revision 0, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, 19 Mar. 2 Lee, David, et al.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” 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.

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