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Angela Belcher wins $500,000 2013 Lemelson-MIT Prize

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MIT professor Angela Belcher has been named the recipient of this year’s $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, which honors an outstanding inventor dedicated to improving the world through technological invention. Earlier post.). Belcher’s technology has given rise to two companies.

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Video Friday: Grav Enhanced

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MIT ] RoboCup teams probably use their humanoids more aggressively than anyone else, so they have to come up with new techniques to keep them walking even as they gradually get more and more worn out. DARPA ] Tech Panel: In 2004, DARPA launched interest in self-driving vehicles with a Grand Challenge.

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Learn About the Candidates Running for 2023 President-Elect

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Kathleen Kramer JT MacMillan Kramer is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of San Diego , where she served as chair of the EE department and director of engineering from 2004 to 2013. In 1989 and 1990, he was a visiting research scientist at MIT.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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An active IEEE volunteer, Hodges served in several leadership roles including 2007 vice chair of the IEEE Awards Board and 2011–2012 vice president of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board. He earned a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics in 1977 from MIT and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1980 from Harvard.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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The company stumbled badly, its bureaucratic approach to product development no match for a fast-moving field. The logical place to build a small computer was inside IBM's General Products Division, which focused on minicomputers and the successful typewriter business. At the outset, though, things looked rosy. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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Behind Audi’s new “rightsized” efficient EA888 Gen.3B family

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Audi’s new higher-efficiency series-production 2.0 Audi initially deployed its turbocharged, direct injection TFSI technology in 2004; the second generation followed in 2007, followed by the third generation, currently on the market, in 2011. Audi’s new “rightsized” 2.0L 3B engine maintains the displacement of the 2.0L Earlier post.)

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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from MIT in 1963. www.youtube.com As an undergraduate engineering student at Carnegie Tech (today’s Carnegie Mellon University), and then as a graduate student at Caltech (before he moved to MIT after one year), Sutherland continued to design and build more advanced light-seeking robots. At MIT, Sutherland met with Wesley A.

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