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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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Sketchpad afforded many different capabilities for working with these line drawings, including the automatic completion of shapes, resizing, and the ability to copy and repeat elements. Computer History Museum In 1968, Sutherland moved to the University of Utah, and he cofounded a new startup to pursue 3D computer graphics.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. University of Utah. Battery Based On Advanced Metal Hydrides A project team from the University of Utah will develop an advanced metal hydride-based compact hot and cold battery. University of Utah). affordably and dynamically control power flow will open up.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories. Xerox could not afford to have people think they were flakes.”

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