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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

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We couldn’t afford to pay [US] $350 to buy a machine at that time, so we had to build our own,” he says. At the talk, he met Joel Snyder , who was 2001 IEEE president and “built up a very personal relationship with him,” Gaynor says. Paul, Minn. Section in 1962 that he became more involved.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Still, its first-person 3D visuals were ahead of the curve, predating more famous hits like Atari’s Battlezone. “I This gave subLogic a cheat sheet to build on. The flashy launch of Windows 95 , hosted by Jay Leno, leaned on media features to convince consumers it was time to retire MS-DOS computers and buy a Windows replacement.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

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Where Can I Buy One? Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. Learn About Plug-ins What Are Plug-ins? 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know?

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0" The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., Most clever engineers would buy the replacement gear and install it. in Rochester, NY.

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Flat Lenses Made of Nanostructures Transform Tiny Cameras and Projectors

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We create these devices using traditional semiconductor-processing techniques to build nanostructures onto a flat surface. They published the discovery in 2001 in Science , causing a stir as people imagined invisibility cloaks. These nanostructures use a phenomenon called metasurface optics to direct and focus light.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

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His parents happily indulged this passion, buying him a computer and providing him with unrestricted Internet access. In April 2000, MafiaBoy was arrested and charged, and in January 2001 he pled guilty to 58 charges of denial-of-service attacks. Up in Anchorage, Alaska, the FBI cyber unit was building a case against VDoS.

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