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Improving Cell Reception By Making Signals Noisier

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In wireless communications, noise from the environment or other signals is almost always seen as something to overcome. based Artemis Networks , however, has a different idea. Artemis Networks Artemis announced its first large-scale pCell installation in May, at the SAP Center in San Diego, a hockey arena and concert venue.

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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They are the ones who came with the ideas, and had the passion, grit, resilience, and creativity to partner with me in creating my entire research portfolio. To commercialize her research, she helped found Quantenna Communications , in San Jose, Calif., I believe all my success as an academic is due to them,” she says.

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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They are the ones who came with the ideas, and had the passion, grit, resilience, and creativity to partner with me in creating my entire research portfolio. To commercialize her research, she helped found Quantenna Communications , in San Jose, Calif., I believe all my success as an academic is due to them,” she says.

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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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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Favorite periodicals Four newspapers daily ( The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The Wall St. He had heard from a colleague that Zadeh had been toying with the idea of leaving Columbia. It was a comfortable, undemanding environment; I was not challenged internally. Zadeh fit the bill.

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Yeah, I Got Your Chevy Volt, Right Here. Day 2 @ Plug-In 2009

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At the 2008 Plug-In Conference in San Jose, Coulomb had the charging game all to themselves, but they were one of half a dozen charging players at this year’s show. They’re building their new Bright IDEA from scratch and they’re building it with a very non-GM mindset.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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He was assigned to figure out how to overcome a challenging propagation environment so that customers could receive their data reliably. After AT&T, he helped companies develop chips for 3G and Wi-Fi at Cadence Design Systems , in San Jose, Calif. He then worked for a startup, Vivato , with offices in Spokane, Wash.,