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Traditional retail sales steady despite e-commerce

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In comparison, the corresponding percentage in 2000 was only 0.9%. books vs. gasoline). Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research.

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Elon Musk biopic based on Walter Isaacson biography in the works

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His previous work, “Steve Jobs,” was adapted into a 2015 Universal film that featured Michael Fassbender as the Apple CEO. As noted in a Variety report, there was reportedly fierce competition to option Isaacson’s book from both studios and filmmakers, though A24 ultimately won the bidding war. ” in 2017.

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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications , in 2000. While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. The course was the basis for his 1962 book Introduction to Radar Systems. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. He was IEEE secretary in 2000.

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Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

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Saracco also taught courses on technology forecasting and market impact at the University of Trento in Italy. students from European universities to help them transform their research into marketable products and solutions. There he led network management research and helped design Italy’s first electronic exchange and data network.

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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

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From Bell Labs to Columbia Unger received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1952 from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He published three books on the topic, including Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer.

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What Texas Instruments’ Little Professor Can Teach Us

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I encountered this funny-looking calculator during a recent visit to the Whipple Museum of the History of Science , at the University of Cambridge. The iconic calculator features the face of a mustachioed man wearing square glasses and reading a book. Which brings me to the object at top.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline. Oxford takes the handoff In 1976, John Goodenough [left] joined the University of Oxford, where he headed development of the first lithium cobalt oxide cathode.