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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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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We had a Teletype terminal, which Lenny used to communicate with a computer somewhere in Pennsylvania on which Texas Instruments’ program for the device was resident. In 1979, for example, Milton Bradley released Super Simon , a two-player game that tested which person could repeat the sequence faster.

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APRIL 14, 2022

For a good review of 5G bio-effects studies, see [Ken] Karipidis’s article that found ‘no confirmed evidence that low-level RF fields above 6 GHz such as those used by the 5G network are hazardous to human health.’” —Kenneth Foster, University of Pennsylvania In your opinion, is exposure assessment a solved problem?

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APRIL 13, 2023

Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.”

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APRIL 1, 2023

But he was fighting religious beliefs, personal grudges, and simple fear. An abridged version of this article appears in the April 2023 print issue as “ Feel the Thunder.” Franklin was frustrated by people’s inertia when presented with what he perceived to be a clear solution to a problem.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Horowitz , director of Perry World House , at the University of Pennsylvania, warns “about the logic of AI and what it means for domestic repression. Even before the rise of AI, the design of common objects in our daily lives has often catered to a particular type of person.

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APRIL 2, 2022

This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. At a meeting of Charpentier, Winterble, and Tramiel, the decision was made to go for a personal computer.

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