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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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A decentralized cloud would minimize the need to use third-party services to manage and store data on people and business enterprises. Alma mater: University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. The HEC can allow consumers to better control how their data is stored, shared, and monetized, Alamouti says. Member grade: Member.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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Starting in the mid-1980s, as chip manufacturing in the country accelerated, engineers who had studied under Kim at. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) assumed top posts in the industry as well as coveted positions teaching or researching semiconductors at universities and government institutes. Chang Hae-Ja.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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Engineers, IT professionals, and business executives can learn valuable lessons by studying his career. On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." Jobs was not an engineer, an IT professional, or even a college graduate. Think differently and work persistently.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. While working toward his Ph.D. Date of birth Oct.

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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It was a vision that never left him, from a mechanical-engineering degree at the University of Toronto, management jobs in the aerospace industry, starting a company and making a pile of money by inventing a new kind of memory foam , and then retiring in 1996 at the age of 36. It’s also a triumph of engineering.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Will we have a universal standard for charging? Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. There's a Carnegie Mellon study that looks at how many people today could charge an electric car at home. We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses. What exactly is fast charging?