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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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Indago flies above structures engulfed in flames and maps out the hot zones, on which K-Max then drops flame retardant or water. The activity won him the university’s President’s Circle Award in 2001. K-Max and one of Lockheed Martin’s small UAVs, the Indago , have been used to fight fires. Fregene remains active in IEEE.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. “It Artwick was right. In 1993, Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0 Textures offered new details.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. These days, his main technical interests surround energy, water, and climate change. Wortman People most respected Intel Corp. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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