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Kenworth Receives Largest Hybrid Tractor and Truck Order Yet

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Coca-Cola Enterprises uses tractors as its standard bulk delivery truck for large deliveries, and plans to deploy the Kenworth hybrid tractors to Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, New Orleans, New York, Portland (Ore.), The Kenworth T370 hybrid trucks (rated at 33,000 lb.

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Nasir Ahmed: An Unsung Hero of Digital Media

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It has changed the music business—from production to distribution to the way fans buy, collect, and store their favorite songs. Only a few image compression standards not using DCT exist today,” he adds. Nasir did just that, leaving India that fall for graduate school at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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in 1966 in EE from the University of New Mexico , in Albuquerque. DCT technology reduces the amount of data required to display, store, and transmit images by identifying parts of the image that contain significant amounts of energy—the ones that are most important to retaining image quality. He received a Ph.D.

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Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, Dies at 91

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Robert Dennard Inventor of Dynamic RAM Fellow, 91; died 23 April In 1967 Dennard invented what is known as DRAM—a type of random-access semiconductor memory that stores each bit of data in a memory cell consisting of a tiny capacitor and transistor. By the early 1970s, DRAM was standard in virtually all computers. He was granted a U.S.