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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

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From Bell Labs to Columbia Unger received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1952 from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He published three books on the topic, including Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer.

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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A few years ago, Martin Ford published a book called Architects of Intelligence , in which he interviewed 23 of the most experienced AI and robotics researchers in the world. In November of that year, a front-page New York Times article was instrumental in bringing awareness of deep learning technology to the broader public sphere.

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When They Electrified Christmas

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debuted electric Christmas lights when he lit up 80 hand-wired bulbs on a tree in the parlor of his New York City home. attention of the New York Times. advertised "Winking Fairy Lights for Christmas Trees" in Hardware Dealers' Magazine. On 22 December 1882, Edward H. Just four years later, Excelsior Supply Co.

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A Cheapskate in Monterey

Baua Electric

In January, a quiet and thrifty time of year, I trusted parks and preserves, unsung hotels and small businesses to keep things economical, even if sampling the variety of Monterey — ranging from historic cities to redwood forests, tide pools and vineyards — required renting a car ($175).

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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His “As We May Think” article, for the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic magazine, envisioned a desktop computer and a “web” of “associative trails” that no less than the founders of Google cite as the inspiration for today’s information science and the Internet. This talk has done a lot of harm.

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

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Simulating New York Harbor In 1971, Evans & Sutherland had undertaken to equip the New York Maritime Academy with a simulator for training harbor pilots. Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. New York, 1985). Window on PostScript” in MacWeek , Feb.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

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Photos First drive: Chevy Volt test A few laps behind the wheel of an early version of GMs electric car shows the strengths - and possible weaknesses - of the technology. That would be the Dodge Circuit, a car that Chrysler unveiled at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show in January and which is now prominently displayed at the New York Auto Show.