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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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But extending it to handle multiple networks—whose reliability couldn’t be taken for granted—was a different story. The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to build the switches for the nascent network.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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The professor is the recipient of this year’s IEEE John von Neumann Medal for “leadership in mobile and wireless sensing systems technologies and applications, including personal health management.” Known as the Genius Grant, the fellowship comes with a US $625,000 award, which Estrin used to help launch PiTech.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

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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., He started his explorations with chemistry. in Rochester, NY.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

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Naturally the people who are to the burning of fossil fuels what the Vichy French were to the battle against the Third Reich, take the “drill, baby drill&# position on energy efficiency, but there’s no reason for any intelligent, decent person to take that route. Not when we can take such simple, easy steps to fight back instead.

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