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MIT/Stanford team optimizes shape of Busemann-type supersonic biplane to reduce drag, fuel consumption, and sonic booms

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In 1935, Adolf Busemann proposed a biplane concept that divided a diamond airfoil into two components and placed the triangular surfaces facing each other—i.e., For decades, the speed of commercial aircraft was constrained by the sound barrier. Conceptual drawing of a supersonic biplane in flight. Credit: Tohoku University.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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The people who developed the Alto came to Xerox PARC from universities, industrial labs, and commercial ventures, bringing with them diverse experiences and skills. Alan Kay Metcalfe left PARC in 1979 to found 3Com, which, along with other startups, commercialized Ethernet. The two were disciples of J.C.R.

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

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The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. What an ideal concept that would be for Xerox.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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