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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn. San Jose, Calif. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif. San Jose, Calif. SunPower, San Jose, Calif. El Centro, Calif.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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If you were engineering the Bell System,” he says, “you weren’t trying to figure out who in San Francisco is going to say what to whom in New York. You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.” A plaque commemorating the ARPANET now stands in front of the Arlington, Va.,

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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In 1981, GM held exploratory conversations with Digital Equipment Corp. Boeing , with similar goals, announced that it would work with the National Bureau of Standards to lead the creation of an OSI protocol stack for technical and office environments, later to be named Technical and Office Protocols (TOP). Hewlett-Packard , and IBM.

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