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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

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He wrote several papers on ethics and technology, as well as computer science, and he penned articles for IEEE Technology and Society Magazine and The Institute. In 1982 the committee was granted society status as the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology. Unger served as its vice chairman in 1980.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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She left USC in 2000 to join UCLA and founded the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. According to a 2018 article in the Cornell Chronicle , she and her team worked on “participatory sensing,” which collects usage data from cellphones, GPS tools, fitness trackers, and email to study people’s health.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ' Conference Program Committee and has published articles in several of the organization's journals. He was granted two U.S. Rahman has received several IEEE awards including the 2000. He is on the. Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors. Naval Research Laboratory.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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The 60-hertz standard (or 50 hertz in most of the rest of the world) is taken for granted today, but in the early days of electrification—before the invention of the master station clock—the standard was seldom standard. An abridged version of this article appears in the March 2024 print issue as “The Clock and the Grid.”

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., Jacobson first showed in 2000 that black carbon was the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide in terms of radiative forcing and, in 2002, that its control would be the most effective method of slowing warming.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” 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. And finally, they estimated that sales might total only 2000 chips a year. You’re crazy.”

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