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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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Floppies have had a surprisingly long life—in January 2024, Japan announced it will no longer require floppy-disk copies of government submissions. As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out.

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ADB draft report says 3B Asians could become affluent by 2050; significant challenges

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Asia accounted for about 20% of the world’s energy consumption in 2000, 27% in 2007, and is expected to rise above 40% by 2050. Following discussions of the report at the gathering, a comprehensive book will be published in August. Energy consumption. The draft report overview was prepared specifically for ADB’s 2011 Annual Meeting.

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Researcher Describes Conceptual Cold Fusion Battery, or Small Power Unit

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The number of presentations on the topic at ACS National Meetings has quadrupled since 2007. He is with Hokkaido University in Japan, and wrote the book Nuclear Transmutation: The Reality of Cold Fusion. Among the other reports scheduled for the symposium are: Michael McKubre, Ph.D., of SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif.,

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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Then there is the Interspecies Internet , an effort launched in 2007 by Cerf, Diana Reiss, director of the animal behavior and conservation graduate programs at Hunter College, in New York City; Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms; and musician Peter Gabriel. 1965, mathematics, Stanford ; M.S. 1970 and Ph.D.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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His schooling in South Korea and at Columbia had primarily emphasized book learning and theory. He returned to KAIST in 2007 and pioneered research in graphene and thermoelectric devices. Without these functional devices, he adds, “there would be no Nobel Prize for the CCD.”. Korea Academy of Science and Technology. Kim Choong-Ki.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

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New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol. 2 PIA Meets CARB Move CARB Forward AltCar Expo 2007 Arnold Amped Up? Wakefield, 1998 "Taken For a Ride: Detroit's Big Three and the politics of pollution" by Jack Doyle Books on Peak Oil and Energy Transition "Beyond Oil: The view from Hubbert's Peak", by Kenneth S.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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After joining the Tokyo Institute of Technology as a professor of computer science in 1997, he became dean of its graduate school of information science and engineering in 2007. He authored or coauthored more than 1,000 papers and books on speech recognition, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing.