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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. The company created the first commercially available microprocessor, the 4004 , in 1971. His projection came true over the decade that followed.

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When They Electrified Christmas

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Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. Croffut's account and many other wonderful facts about the history of decorative lights are available on the website Old Christmas Tree Lights.). of Chicago.

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

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In the hospital, all of the epidemiology is available in the electronic health record: where they were, when they were there, who they had contact with through their roommates, or who their health care providers were. I was surprised by the result, but when you think about it, whole-genome sequencing is relatively cheap.

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

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. No other publishing package then available used the same software for different output devices. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. That goal led ultimately to a page description language called PostScript, today the de facto standard of desktop publishing. 2, 1988, pp.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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Complete plans for the Galaksija were first published in 1983 in an article in the computer magazine Računari u vašoj kući as a joint venture between the Galaksija’s designer, Voja Antonić , and the magazine’s editor, Dejan Ristanović. (An Like many makers, I use a cheap and cheerful TL866-based ROM programmer.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. As it was 1969, there were no semicustom ICs, gate array technology was in its infancy, and only primitive packaging was available—standard dual in-line packages (DIPs) were at least 0.125 inch thick—while logic and power transistors could not yet share the same piece of silicon.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. They lacked completely the sophisticated design tools of today’s engineering workstations, but they had one readily available design tool found almost nowhere else in the home-computer industry: a chip-fabrication line on the premises. Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute!

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