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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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Audio Magazine/Internet Archive /Scotch As Smithsonian Magazine notes , the formulation he developed, combining cabinetmaker’s glue with glycerin, proved to be just the right level of easy-to-remove adhesive that it became an out-and-out phenomenon. In the mid-1950s, 3M advertised its Scotch audio reel-to-reel tape.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. In 2002 Moore received a U.S. His projection came true over the decade that followed. Presidential Medal of Freedom —the country’s highest civilian honor.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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It happened as well in 2002 when IBM sold its disk drive business to Hitachi at that time. But that's almost exactly the same revenue as Google—now Alphabet—in the mere 19 years from 2002 to 2020. And the marketplace also began to compete based on price. Because everybody had good machines. Who's spending the money with them?

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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After completing his doctorate in 2002, he began working as an R&D engineer at a Honeywell Aerospace facility in Minneapolis. Things turned around for him in the ninth grade when a new teacher had a particular way of teaching math that “turned the light bulb on in my brain,” he says. “My My grades took off right after he showed up.”

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SiliconRepublic.com: IBM to build smart grid for electric cars - R&D

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Knowledge Ireland Marketing Age Irish Director Knowledge Ireland is a ground-breaking quarterly magazine from Siliconrepublic.com, unique in its exploration of strategy and innovation through people and technology. Subscribe Now Knowledge Ireland Marketing Age Irish Director Irish Director is unlike any other Irish business magazine.

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Remembering IEEE Spectrum Columnist Bob Lucky

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I had the honor of being Bob’s last editor at the magazine,” says Stephen Cass , senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. He retired in 2002. From 1982 to 2019 he wrote a bimonthly column, Reflections, for IEEE Spectrum , in which he told stories and shared his perspective on the engineering field as well as technology trends and milestones. “I

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Ford showcasing vehicle-to-vehicle communication for crash avoidance; potential for leveraging WiFi and smartphones to extend quickly the number of participating vehicles

Green Car Congress

DOT has been conducting research with automotive manufacturers since 2002 in order to assess the feasibility of developing effective crash avoidance systems that utilize vehicle-to-vehicle communications. V2V Communications for Safety. Ford hosted Green Car Congress at the Forward with Ford event in June.).

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