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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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In addition to sharing his time and talents with IEEE, he was a professor of electrical engineering for 35 years at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia. Each year, a winner is selected from students who presented their projects at the Society for Science’s Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair.

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Study warns on possible air pollution link to neuroinflammatory, Alzheimer and Parkinson’s pathologies in megacity children

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While the study focused on children living in Mexico City, others living in cities where there are alarming levels of air pollution such as Los Angeles, Philadelphia-Wilmington, New York City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Tokyo, Mumbai, New Delhi or Shanghai, among others, also face major health risks. Resources.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Ferreira authored or coauthored 130 journal and transactions articles and more than 400 conference papers. Ferreira served as 2020 chair of the IEEE PELS International Technology Roadmap on Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductors. from the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia, in 1959. He was granted 15 patents.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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In 1935, Henry Warren [right] received a medal from the Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia, for his invention of the Telechron synchronous motor. According to the incredibly informative website maintained by clock enthusiast Mark Frank, the Type D existed as an internal testing device and never went into production.

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

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Once Kahn found a venue for the demo—at the International Conference on Computer Communications (ICCC), to be held in Washington, D.C., In an effort to speed the expansion further, network advocates organized a demonstration at the International Conference on Computer Communications in Washington, D.C., in October 1972.

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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’.” If a page had no uppercase Qs in it, the character generator would economize on internal memory by not generating a pattern for a capital “Q.” Doug Engelbart [of SRI International Inc. Legend has it that McColough then turned to Jack E.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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The midtown Manhattan tap nest was one of many private listening posts around the country (“Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston, Miami, and Washington all have wiretap centers comparable to the cozy set-up recently exposed in New York”), and the shadowy “Alliance” had a vested interest in keeping their workings under wraps.