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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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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. Coughlin is also the founder of the Storage Networking Industry Association 's Solid State Storage Initiative, the Storage Visions Conference , and the Creative Storage Conference.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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As it turns out, Estrin—whose parents are IEEE Fellows Gerald and Thelma Estrin—has a connection to von Neumann, a mathematician who made contributions to physics, computing, and game theory. IEEE is a place for setting intellectual standards for publications, and it creates a place for a lot of open dialogue through conferences.”.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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IPCC reference emissions scenarios, 2000—2100. The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change. “We

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Tour Engine moves its opposed-cylinder split-cycle engine to beta prototype; coupling a compression ratio of 8:1 with expansion ratio of 16:1 for increased efficiency

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the developer of a novel opposed-cylinder split-cycle engine, presented details of its new beta prototype at last week’s DOE Directions in Engine-Efficiency and Emissions Research (DEER) conference in Detroit. Zajac, earlier post ) to connect the cylinder pairs. And, it must be able to withstand a high-temperature environment.

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This CAD Program Can Design New Organisms

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Genome Project-write (GP-write) conference. Human Genome Project , which produced the first draft of a human genome in 2000, took more than a decade and cost about $2.7 Within the genome are sections of DNA called genes, many of which code for the production of proteins; there are more than 20,000 genes in the human genome.

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