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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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The Algorithm that Mapped Omicron Shows a Path Forward

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The task of vaccines is to present antigens that will trigger this immune response without making the person sick. Each row in a table represents a new virus sample from a flu-positive person, and each column represents antisera from infected ferrets. a splashy paper in the journal Science in July 2004. Chris Philpot.

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The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys

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Much like jazz musicians improvising, engineers go with the flow at team meetings, he says: One person comes up with an idea, and another suggests ways to improve it. For that reason, Electrical Business magazine named him one of the 10 most influential executives in 2002, as well as its 2004 CEO of the Year.

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