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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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He also is an adjunct assistant professor at the Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and he wrote The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law. He and a group of patent lawyers decided to seek out a test case to help establish a legal precedent. Charles, Mo.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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Yuste, a professor of biology at Columbia University who studies neural circuitry, has been promoting the idea of neurorights for nearly a decade now. Legal scholars working with the NeuroRights Foundation say the right to mental privacy is under the most imminent threat. He first raised the issue through his involvement with the.

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How the FCC Settles Radio-Spectrum Turf Wars

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As an attorney, I represented a microwave-industry group in the ensuing legal dispute.). This radio tower, located near downtown Los Angeles, is bedecked with 6-GHz fixed-microwave antennas that serve area police and fire departments. Fixed Ideas. Strategies for accomplishing that task vary. Alternative Realities.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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The idea of putting together a PC outside of IBM's development process disturbed some committee members. On 2 August 1985, Estridge, his wife, Mary Ann, and a handful of IBM salesmen from Los Angeles boarded Delta Flight 191 headed to Dallas. In early 1985, Opel made Bill Lowe head of the PC business. Then disaster struck.

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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. Ted Hoff: Vital Stats Name Marcian E. Ted) Hoff Jr.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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Reply to this comment by TotallyMadeUpName April 7, 2009 7:34 AM PDT Bike lanes were designed with the idea of carrying vehicles that are about 2 feet wide, with , of course, padding on each side. If a go-cart cant legally drive there, then this thing wont be able to either. Keep them off the damn sidewalks. Look at it this way.

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Fakes: Not an Internet Thing, a Human Thing

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The one which I think causes the most misunderstandings is the popular understanding of this idea from the 1990s of the Internet as an information superhighway. Some of these people were breaking into computer systems illegally, though others were exploring the technology in legal, yet unconventional ways. That amplifies the message.

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