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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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Because for those with disabilities, assistive technologies mean more than convenience. So, what is an assistive technology (AT), and who designs it? They're all assistive technologies. CSUN Master of Science in Assistive Technology Engineering. Master of Science in Assistive Technology Engineering at.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Vannevar Bush was the first trained electrical engineer to publicly proclaim in influential circles that EE’s are one engine of innovation and the driving in digital technology. As the early the 1930s, he viewed the entrepreneur and the engineer as twin forces for progress and technological advancement.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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He foresaw what the future of technology could—and should—be. Still, he was able to make lasting contributions to the technology and business worlds. On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." As Jobs had emphasized, "Technology alone is not enough.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Rapid and pivotal advances in technology have a way of unsettling people, because they can reverberate mercilessly, sometimes, through business, employment, and cultural spheres. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee?

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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This is not a technology problem; it’s a business-model problem.”. A decentralized cloud would minimize the need to use third-party services to manage and store data on people and business enterprises. The HEC can allow consumers to better control how their data is stored, shared, and monetized, Alamouti says.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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