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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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of Dallas, Texas. He is now a design manager at Dallas Semiconductor Corp. in Dallas, Texas.) Designing in Dallas A preliminary round had disappointed both IC teams. Then in 1971, when GE dropped out of the IC business, it was issued to Sprague Electric Corp., as well as to Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. To probe further.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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For Steven Jobs, the 29-year-old chairman of Apple and the Macintosh project’s director, it offered a chance to prove himself in the corporate world after a temporary setback: although he cofounded Apple Computer, the company had declined to let him manage the Lisa project. The interesting thing about this business,” mused Mr.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. Computer graphics artist Norm Cox, now of Cox & Hall, Dallas, Texas, was finally hired to redesign the icons.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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. “In 25 years from now, millions of buildings … will be constructed to serve as both ‘power plants’ and habitats,&# says writer and economist Jeremy Rifkin, who has advised governments and corporations on tackling climate change and energy security. — Mark - Dallas 21. — Mark - Dallas 25.

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