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Sci-fi and Hi-fi

Cars That Think

Some have even built, or rebuilt, entire companies around an idea introduced in a story they read, as the founders of Second Life and Meta did, working from the metaverse as imagined by Neal Stephenson in his seminal 1992 novel Snow Crash. The idea they hit upon—turning a planet into a computer—is not new in science fiction, Cass notes.

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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn

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Together they make up the Internet’s core architecture and enable computers to connect and exchange information. Khan soon after conceived the idea of open-architecture networking. In March 1973 he recruited Cerf to help him make his idea into reality.

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Japanese officials raid a Toyota group plant after the company admitted cheating on engine testing – ET Auto

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He apologized, bowing deeply, and stressed the group vision was rooted in the Toyoda founding family’s ideas of empowering the “genba,” or the workers on the plant floor, “to make good cars that lead to people’s happiness.” No major accidents have been reported in connection with any of the cheating.

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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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students, postdocs, collaborators, and the team at CMT who have worked incredibly hard in creative ways to take research ideas and have them really impact the world,” he says. “It Between 1999 and 2004, he oversaw the development of the Cricket indoor location system. It honors the field of mobile sensing and networked systems.”

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Inside the Universe Machine: The Webb Space Telescope’s Ultra-Reliable Radio

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He became the mission systems engineer in 2004. “I JWST will stay connected via the Deep Space Network (DSN)—a resource it shares with the Parker Solar Probe , Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite , the Voyager probes , and the entire ensemble of Mars rovers and orbiters , to name just a few of the other heavyweights.

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Dept. of Interior proposes more stringent regulations for offshore oil and gas well equipment

Green Car Congress

We worked to collect the best ideas on the prevention of well control incidents and blowouts to develop this proposed rule—including knowledge and skill sets from industry and equipment managers. An ROV hot stab is a high pressure subsea connector used to connect the ROV into the BOP system. 6A, ANSI/API Spec. 16A, API Spec.

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Green Friday | Black Friday

My Energi

The humble beginnings, the unique ideas, the creatives, artists and visionaries. Established 2004 in sunny Cleethorpes England. All decisions in connection with this Giveaway are final. We can’t buy these moments online or staring down aisles awash with cardboard and plastic. Extreme Sports.

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