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Farewell, Philip E. Ross

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Private Eye magazine from the 1970s. In the rollicking 1990s, Forbes hired him away from Scientific American , and then a startup magazine called Red Herring hired him away from Forbes. It was late 1999 through early 2000. The movies Casablanca , Life of Brian , and Animal House.

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Magazine Article and 914 EV Wiki

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I ran out to Barnes and Noble today and picked up the March issue of Sports Car Market magazine. The federal rebate on qualified vehicles (all hybrids at this point) is up around $2000, I think. My 914 was featured on page 38 along with John Benson's 914 DC conversion! I hope Electro Auto doesn't get even more swamped by the publicity.

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The Age of the Car is Gone, that of the SUV has succeeded

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In 2000, the average U.S. percent by 2000. Science magazine, back in 1974. It further reinforces Kenneth Boulding's 47-year-old definition of a driver as a "knight with the mobility of the aristocrat," the envy of the peasants who go on foot. Today's SUV driver, however, looks down not on pedestrians but on paupers in mere cars.

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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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Rahman is the founding editor in chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2013. He served as the 2018–2019 president of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (IEEE PES).

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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. He received several awards including the 2000 IEEE Millennium Medal , the 1987 IEEE-USA Robert S.

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To Look Forward, Sometimes You Have to Look Back

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Magazines love to dabble in prognostication, particularly when it comes to emerging technology. And for IEEE members, enjoy your exclusive member benefit: online access to our feature archives going back to 2000. Check back in a few years to see how that prognostication pans out. Meanwhile, have some fun with this issue.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. Along with his wife of 72 years, in 2000 Moore established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation , which has donated more than US $5.1 His projection came true over the decade that followed.