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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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In addition to sharing his time and talents with IEEE, he was a professor of electrical engineering for 35 years at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia. Each year, a winner is selected from students who presented their projects at the Society for Science’s Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He helped develop the Williams-Comstock formula, a critical design tool for magnetic recording systems. Ferreira authored or coauthored 130 journal and transactions articles and more than 400 conference papers. Ferreira served as 2020 chair of the IEEE PELS International Technology Roadmap on Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductors.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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His initial designs, as described in a series of patents , were for a pendulum clock with a permanent magnet as its bob (that’s the weight at the bottom of the pendulum). There, Warren designed, built, and installed the instrument he dubbed the Warren Master Station Clock. In 1912, Warren established the Warren Clock Co.,

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

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Once Kahn found a venue for the demo—at the International Conference on Computer Communications (ICCC), to be held in Washington, D.C., In an effort to speed the expansion further, network advocates organized a demonstration at the International Conference on Computer Communications in Washington, D.C., in October 1972.

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

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Many of the people at BCC were responsible for the design of the SDS 940, the computer on the strength of which Xerox bought Scientific Data Systems in 1968.) Laser printers.

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