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Paying Tribute to Computer Science Pioneer Frederick Brooks, Jr.

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Software and peripherals from old systems would not work with new ones, making it costly for customers to upgrade their hardware, according to an IBM article about the technology. Before the release of IBM System/360, computer systems were incompatible with each other, even if they were developed by the same manufacturer.

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Paying Tribute to Former IEEE President Richard Gowen

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It gave the research team "the ability to evaluate the movement of fluids on the cardiovascular system," Gowen wrote in an article about the research on the Engineering Technology and History Wiki. The device is now on display in Washington, D.C., at the Smithsonian National Space and Air Museum. Gowen served as a consultant for the U.S.

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Paying Tribute to 1997 IEEE President Charles K. Alexander

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Jon and I decided to include articles that would help students on topics like career development and how to be successful.” McDearman , he helped launch IEEE Potentials. Potentials was designed to be something of value for the undergraduates, who don’t want to read technical papers,” Alexander said in the oral history. “We

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Video Friday: $2.6 Billion

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This April, we’re making the legendary game playable on our robotic mowers as a tribute to 30 years of mowing down demons. This article proposes a novel freeform and truss-structured modular self-reconfigurable robot called FreeSN, containing node and strut modules. Tech United ] Get ready to rip, shear, mow and tear as DOOM is back!

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This Robotic Pack Mule Can Carry Your Gear (and You)

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. When we managed to accomplish that I thought we did well enough to tribute the original Barry by using his name, to convey our vision of what robots could become.” Being able to ride the robot was one of our ambitions,” Valsecchi tells us.

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Air New Zealand moves to purchase electric planes

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Seeing it soar through the skies of New Zealand is a magical prospect, and I pay tribute to Air New Zealand’s commitment to innovation and sustainability.”. What do you think of the article? “New Zealand has earned a proud reputation for its progressive attitude and wide-ranging policies towards the climate challenge.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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This tribute is an excerpted version of an article dedicated to his memory written by three of his colleagues: IEEE Member Jae Jeong Hwang, Zoran M. They presented their results in the article “ Discrete Cosine Transform ,” published in the January 1974 IEEE Transactions on Computers. Bojkovi?.