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Video Friday: Quadruped Transformer

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ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, Netherlands CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Azores, Portugal Enjoy today’s videos! Jack, a product manager at Waymo, shares a couple interactions and the personal connection he has with getting it right.

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Explore Pioneering Software at the Computer History Museum

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Documenting the life and times of Gordon Moore Before joining the Computer History Museum, Brock worked for 17 years at the Science History Institute , in Philadelphia. His articles for Spectrum include a profile of superconducting pioneer Dudley Buck and a look at the origins of PowerPoint. Brock is an active IEEE volunteer.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Her insights greatly helped with this article. Lyft also has rolled out multiple-rider sharing that creates an on-demand carpool.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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In Warren’s own telling of the story , his first attempt at an electric chronometer was a crude motor that connected the gears of a clock to the Boston Edison electrical system. The black hand is connected to a standard mechanical pendulum clock; the gold hand is driven by a synchronous motor. In 1916, the Warren Clock Co.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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And by mid-1971, program director Lawrence Roberts of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was becoming impatient with the slow pace at which ARPA-funded researchers were getting connected. And he had to work with the hotel to prepare the room for the demo and arrange with AT&T to run leased lines to the Hilton’s ballroom.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building. Much serious work got done electronically as well: reports, articles, sometimes entire design projects were done through the network.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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The connections blanketed an area of Manhattan running from East 38th Street to East 96th Street, a swath of the city’s most expensive real estate. Savarese , an assemblyman with connections to the New York City Anti-Crime Committee, to convene an emergency joint commission on the illegal interception of electronic communications.