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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. He was an active member of the IEEE Magnetics Society and received its 2007 Johnson Storage Device Technology Award. He was granted 15 patents. He also guided the development of thin-film disk drives, according to his biography on the Engineering and Tech History Wiki. patents during his time at IBM.

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NYC Goes EV

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Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Imagine it is 2013 in New York City. Instead, while you recharge your battery after a long day at work, your new electric car could be recharging as well. Others, however, think the city should focus more in getting people out of cars altogether. Or No Cars?

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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 ARPANET and the way it handled communications was already well established. The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Transit agencies began submitting their proposals after the FTA announced rules for the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) grant program as part of the Recovery Act last March. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 The DOT is making $48.1

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Later, with Mazor and Faggin he filed for and was granted a patent for a “memory system for a multi-chip digital computer.”) In 1990, after numerous appeals and extensions, Hyatt was granted that patent and began collecting royalties from many microprocessor manufacturers. and New York City. Cambridge, Mass.;

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