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Researchers Sequence the Maize (Corn) Genome

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The new maize sequence was produced by a consortium of researchers that was led by the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) at Washington University in St. and included the University of Arizona, Iowa State University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. The HapMap was produced by a team led by Edward S.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. MAXC set a pattern for PARC: building its own hardware.

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