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How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah

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Their groundbreaking research, conducted at the University of Utah , in Salt Lake City, and at their company, Evans and Sutherland , helped jump-start the computer graphics industry. A ceremony was held at the university on 24 March to recognize the computer graphics and visualization techniques with an IEEE Milestone.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.

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Unifrax introduces Battery Advisory Board to support SiFAB silicon fiber anode battery technology

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SiFAB, a scalable proprietary silicon anode battery technology demonstrated in a number of applications, including electric vehicles, power tools, smartphones, personal computers, medical devices and aviation, can deliver up to a 20% increase in gravimetric energy density in lithium-ion batteries versus cells using a graphite anode.

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The President-Elect Candidates’ Plans to Further IEEE’s Mission

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IEEE members around the world: perform and share research, product development activities, and standard development network and engage with each other and their communities educate current and future technology professionals measure performance and quality formulate ethics choices and many more – these are just a few examples!

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A Serial Entrepreneur Shares Lessons Learned on His Road to Success

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It wasn’t until he became an IEEE student member in 2006 that Pillai learned those terms. Pillai is now senior vice president of ZoomInfo’s products and growth department. In 2015 Profoundis launched its fifth product, Vibe: sales software that helps businesses identify prospective customers. It proved to be a winner.

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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. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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Intel microprocessors now power personal computers made by major manufacturers including Dell , HP , and IBM. From researcher to entrepreneur Moore received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1950 from the University of California, Berkeley. Intel’s first product, the 3101 64-bit SRAM, was released in 1969.