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Stuart Parkin Revolutionized Disk Drive Storage

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Most of that time was spent at the company’s famed Almaden research laboratory, in San Jose, Calif. I like to think nowadays paper books aren’t needed as much because everything is digital,” he says. Books weren’t Parkin’s only companions when he was young, however. IBM built the lab three years after hiring Parkin.

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Four Benefits of EV Charging for Hospitality

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EVs are reaching the mass market, and drivers expect to be able to charge their cars wherever they go. million electric cars were sold worldwide in the first quarter of 2023, a 25% increase from the same period in 2022, and the International Energy Agency currently expects 14 million global EV sales by the end of the year.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Favorite books “I made a conscious decision to stop reading fiction at age 15, when I was a voracious reader. I now read scientific books and other nonfiction only.” Favorite periodicals Four newspapers daily ( The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The Wall St. Zadeh Date of Birth Feb.

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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

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San Jose, Calif. The Iowa farm boy was introduced to science by Illa Podendorf , an author of children’s science books and a family friend who kept the young Craford supplied with texts that suited his interests. Shrug when you spot the plastic taped over a few of the mirrors to obstruct that view.

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

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Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. San Jose, Calif., “It had an interactive, stack-oriented architecture,” Gaffney said, “with simple commands for pushing and popping arguments onto and from the stack and a rich dictionary for look-ups.”

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Biggest surprise in career Media hysteria over the microprocessor Patents 17 Books recently read Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Theory by John R. founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, Intel chief executive officer Andrew Grove Favorite restaurants Postrio and Bella Voce in San Francisco, Beausejour in Los Altos, Calif.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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In a recent review of the Summer Games, an Epyx sports game for the C-64, the San Jose, Calif. Computer bookstores carry a wide selection of books on the C-64. Another problem that has begun to emerge in some C-64s is faulty horizontal scrolling of bit-mapped screens. To probe further. Among those recommended are.

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