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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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Toyota Motor Corporation has begun accepting applications today for this year’s Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program , which is designed to support environmental revitalization and conservation activities aimed at sustainable development both in Japan and overseas. 2016 Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program Recipients.

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The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine

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But when I graduated from college in January 1968, the Cold War and Vietnam War were raging, and spying seemed like a risky career choice. From then on, its electronic machines, such as the HC-500 series, were secretly designed by the NSA, sometimes with the help of corporate partners such as Motorola. defense contractor. William F.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By 1968 student hostility to the government over the Vietnam War was growing and life for researchers on campus who, like Hoff, relied on government funding was looking as if it might get uncomfortable. Later, with Mazor and Faggin he filed for and was granted a patent for a “memory system for a multi-chip digital computer.”)

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