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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If Alamouti says tokens, enabled by distributed ledgers, could replace cash as a method of exchange, with low-cost transaction fees. He says IEEE was the first to publish his articles.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. San Jose, Calif.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. San Jose, Calif., While a research manager at Intel Corp., A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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This article was first published as "Intel's secret is out." Here, however, the plan was to make it possible for users to bypass the SRAM and attach the processor directly to a DRAM, which would allow the chip to be designed into low-cost systems as well as to address very large data structures. a division of Unisys Corp.).

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." When the design of the Commodore 64 began, the overriding goals were simplicity and low cost. The initial production cost of the Commodore 64 was targeted at $130; it turned out to be $135. It appeared in the March 1985 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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