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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. Single lens reflex (SLR) A camera viewing system that, by swinging an angled mirror temporarily between lens and film, allows a person looking into the viewfinder to seem to see through the lens, previewing the image that will be captured on film. He is now a design manager at Dallas Semiconductor Corp.

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Is America’s Electrician Shortage Hurting our Ability To Get Away from Fossil Fuels?

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Simpson, Dallas, TX A shift away from fossil fuels is necessary if we are to mitigate climate change, but a serious electrician shortage in the U.S. See more at E Magazine. Is America’s Electrician Shortage Hurting our Ability To Get Away from Fossil Fuels? is proving to be one of the biggest barriers to reaching this goal.

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The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys

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Much like jazz musicians improvising, engineers go with the flow at team meetings, he says: One person comes up with an idea, and another suggests ways to improve it. For that reason, Electrical Business magazine named him one of the 10 most influential executives in 2002, as well as its 2004 CEO of the Year.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. When you have one person designing the whole computer, he knows that a little leftover gate in one part may be used in another part.” It’ll never work.’

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. The combination of windowing displays, menus, icons, and a mouse that is increasingly used on personal computers and workstations. Computer graphics artist Norm Cox, now of Cox & Hall, Dallas, Texas, was finally hired to redesign the icons. Smith et al.,

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

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— Mark - Dallas 21. — Mark - Dallas 25. I personally wouldn’t count on the “Big Three&# actually implementing any of these new technologies in the near future. I believe in capitalism, American innovation, our ability to rapidly move an industry forward through entrepreneurship. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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