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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams joined IBM in San Jose, Calif., An expert in power electronic converters, electrical machines, and novel grid components, he spent almost his entire career in academia, conducting research in power electronics. He had earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech.

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

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Back then, Warnock already had a rough idea how to “Print Anything.” There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. San Jose, Calif.,

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

Charged : You’ve done some pilot programs with battery-electric planes, but your long-term idea is to build fuel cell aircraft, correct? The idea from day one was hydrogen fuel cell-based drivetrains, but it’s hydrogen-electric, so you have to build the electric part. Is it worth it to go through all that trouble to get that?

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Participative leadership, where ideas are followed by action. Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs. In my conversations, I focus primarily on the overall total cost of ownership and I have encouraged some friends to convert. I prefer an open exchange of ideas creating consensus decisions.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Participative leadership, where ideas are followed by action. Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs. In my conversations, I focus primarily on the overall total cost of ownership and I have encouraged some friends to convert. I prefer an open exchange of ideas creating consensus decisions.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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The idea that a researcher should program computer systems interactively was anathema to them. Soon Mazor, then a research engineer at Intel, joined him, and the two pursued Hoff’s ideas, developing a simple instruction set that could be implemented with about 2000 transistors. San Jose, Calif., Ted) Hoff Jr.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

utilizing these ideas and instructions in an attempting to enhance national security, reduce gas consumption, vehicle "emissions", your carbon footprint, or smog, you do so at your own risk & peril. What changes do we make to convert a gasoline-only hybrid to a Plug-In Hybrid? Its all about the Fuel Source!

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