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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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We visited three PTTs [postal, telegraph, and telephone services],” Jacobs said, “in Germany, in France, and in the U.K. They also began working on the concept of “Knowbots,” mobile software programs that could collect and store information to be used to handle distributed tasks on a network. The reactions were all the same.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

Green Car Congress

Microbial ecology and genomics of carbon-storing bacteria in rhizosphere soils. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France. INRA, France. University of Texas at Arlington. DeAngelis, Kristen. University of Massachusetts. Dubilier, Nicole. Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany. McKay, Robert.