Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Laker worked with the IEEE Board of Directors in the early 1990s to purchase personal computers for the organization’s leaders to make it easier to conduct IEEE business via the Internet. Laker joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 as an EE professor. Ken Laker , the 1999 IEEE president, died on 2 August at the age of 76.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 1976, Ralph Baer and Howard Morrison , two game designers, happened to see a trade show demonstration of an Atari arcade game called Touch Me. The game’s original design featured a square console with four colored buttons—red, blue, green, and yellow—that would emit soft tones when lit up.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 1, 2023

Parisian designers came up with a lightning-conducting hat [left] and umbrella [right]. But he was fighting religious beliefs, personal grudges, and simple fear. Case in point: In 1778, French fashion designers proposed ladies’ hats and umbrellas with built-in lightning conductors.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

began designing a graphics chip and a sound chip to sell to whoever wanted to make “the world’s best video game.” When the chip-development project started, the Commodore 64 was not at all what the designers had in mind. This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64."

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 3, 2022

But what design principles might be sacrificed in the process? Horowitz , director of Perry World House , at the University of Pennsylvania, warns “about the logic of AI and what it means for domestic repression. The Tyranny of AI Design. AI design decisions can restrain people rather than liberate them from day-to-day concerns.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. These are local investors who are very well capitalized and are personally known to the staff of the utility and city officials.

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