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The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI

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So who was this unknown person? The identity of the person between Solomonoff and Shannon remained a mystery for some time. The Minsky Family Between Solomonoff and Shannon is the unknown person. He assured me that the unknown person was not his father. Grace Solomonoff So the unknown person must be Milner!

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Honda R&D Americas opens new advanced design studio in downtown Los Angeles

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Computer-aided design tools allow designers to realize their ideas rapidly in virtual and physical space. Honda R&D established Advanced Design Studio in 2006, in Pasadena, Calif. Full-size models and prototypes are created through collaboration with the company's Torrance-based operations.

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An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python

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After Vic Wintriss sold his sports-imaging company, Wintriss Engineering , to his cofounders in 2006, the electrical engineer was looking for a project to keep himself busy. While discussing with his wife what his next career move should be, an idea suddenly came to him in the form of a vision. “It I didn’t even know Java.”

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. MB of data.

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A Serial Entrepreneur Shares Lessons Learned on His Road to Success

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It wasn’t until he became an IEEE student member in 2006 that Pillai learned those terms. I was young and stupid and had no idea what I was getting into,” Pillai says, laughing. The startup’s B2B platform used a combination of human and chatbot conversations to personalize a customer’s purchasing experience with a retailer.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. military during the war, and the company revisited the idea immediately after. The invention was used by the U.S. That was a harbinger of what was to come.

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Beyond Pizza and Yale: What to See, Eat and Do in New Haven

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In the largely Black and brown Dixwell neighborhood northwest of campus, Titus Kaphar, a resident and 2006 graduate of the Yale School of Art, and Jason Price, a private equity manager, founded NXTHVN. Showcasing New Haven as an arts hub is the aim of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.