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A Brief History of the Office Cubicle

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Henry Miller’s Acoustic Area Conditioner was a white-noise machine for corporate workspaces. Throughout corporate America, economic realities collided with Propst’s vision as managers tried to jam more people into a defined space with little regard for worker or workspace needs. The moniker stuck.

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IEEE Honors Iconic Engineers

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DEBOY Infineon Technologies Austria AG Villach, Austria TATSUHIKO FUJIHIRA Fuji Electric Matsumoto, Japan “For contributions to the concept and realization of superjunction power devices that significantly improve power efficiency.” Corecipients: DAVID JAMES COE Philips Research Laboratories Redhill, Surrey, England GERALD F. IEEE JACK S.

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The Net-Zero Neighborhood: Advanced Energy Storage and Highly Efficient Photovoltaics Take Transportation Off the Gasoline Grid and Residential Off the Electric Grid

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The NZN concept relies on high energy density storage systems incorporated into the local grid, as well as efficient photovoltaic generation. He also served as a media and technology executive at Time Warner, both in corporate positions and at the company’s America Online (AOL) division. NZN can integrate with the centralized grid.

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DOE AVTA Completes 1M Miles of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Testing

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The AVTA’s testing of PHEVs demonstrates PHEV concepts in real-world usage by using fleet and public drivers. INL is also a principle participant with eTec and Nissan in coming deployment of deployment of 4,700 battery-electric Nissan Leaf vehicles in 5 greater metropolitan statistical areas. Earlier post.)

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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Going forward, GM plans to spend proportionally less of its marketing budget on the corporate identity and more on the vehicle brands. The Cadillac Converj extended-range electric vehicle Concept uses the Voltec platform. Henderson on the process: It wasn’t a statistical process, it was more people who corresponded with us.

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

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When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. What an ideal concept that would be for Xerox. The Aurora 100 is now used by corporations to develop in­ house training films and presentation graphics.

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

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As early as 2012, Chevrolet frequently trumpeted the statistic that two-thirds of total miles covered by Chevy Volts were done on grid power. That includes the $7,500 federal income-tax credit, and lessees may benefit from various state, local, and corporate incentives on top of that. But now Jeep will be going further.

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