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The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI

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When the photo was reprinted in Eliza Strickland’s October 2021 article “The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence,” in IEEE Spectrum , the caption identified six people, plus one “unknown.” All six contributed to AI, computer science, or related fields in the decades following the Dartmouth workshop.

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Building Better Qubits

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While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. IBM claims this new chip will improve performance by 45 percent using the same amount of power, or use 75 percent less energy while maintaining the same performance level, as today’s 7 nm-based chips,” an IEEE Spectrum article said.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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Similar mismatches between climate policy desires and an energy infrastructure incapable of supporting those policies will play out across not only in the United States but elsewhere in one form or another over the next two decades as conversion to EVs and electric appliances moves to scale.

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

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National Bureau of Standards and Norman Meisner at Mitre , a federally funded R&D organization, arranged a series of workshops in early 1979 to explore “Local Area Network Protocols.” In 1981, GM held exploratory conversations with Digital Equipment Corp. Lynch led the planning of a workshop in Monterey, Calif.,

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Electric Vehicles Open-up New Business Opportunities

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Electric vehicle conversion Electric vehicle charging station setup Electric vehicle maintenance Electric vehicle-related software training center. #5 EV Workshop. Electric vehicle repair and maintenance workshops can be started in a place where there are a lot of electric vehicles available on road. 5 Retrofitting.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. While a research manager at Intel Corp., It appeared in the February 1994 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

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As I learned at the day-long April 29th California Energy Commission Staff Workshop on AB 811 and AB 811 type programs in Sacramento, programs done on an individual city basis, like the City of Berkley’s, don’t enjoy the necessary economies of scale that countywide, JPA or statewide programs (now in development) can bring.

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