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

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Home Business Digital Life New Media Comms CIO R&D Government Careers Events E-Monday Video Audio Dublin: 18.04.2009 02:44 AM SiliconRepublic.com Irelands Technology News Service RSS News Alerts Subscribe Features Google reports record Q1 profits BT reveals 24Mbps service Yahoo!,

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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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 After completing his doctorate in 2002, he began working as an R&D engineer at a Honeywell Aerospace facility in Minneapolis. My grades took off right after he showed up.”

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

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Ruppert "The End of Oil", by Paul Roberts "High and Mighty: The dangerous rise of the SUV", by Keith Bradsher, 2002 "High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis", by Julian Darley "The Hype about Hydrogen", by Joseph J. 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? EV Driver Profile: the Pauls Newsletter Vol. 4 Great Gifts! Why Am I a Member?

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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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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He wrote Microprocessor Logic Design , a widely used textbook, as well as numerous articles for professional and trade magazines. He worked there until he retired in 2002. He was a research physicist at Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J., from 1955 to 1996.

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The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys

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For that reason, Electrical Business magazine named him one of the 10 most influential executives in 2002, as well as its 2004 CEO of the Year. During the past three and a half decades, logic synthesis has enabled about a 10 millionfold increase in chip complexity, he says.

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