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JULY 7, 2023

OurVision is a low-cost wearable that reads text out loud to users and helps them navigate their surroundings. The IEEE CIS chapter received a US $4,400 grant for the project from EPICS in IEEE , made possible through generous donors and a partnership with the IEEE Foundation. To support future projects, donate here.

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Scientists at Rice University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have predicted and created new two-dimensional electrocatalysts—low-cost, layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (MX 2 ) based on molybdenum and tungsten—to extract hydrogen from water with high performance and low cost.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.” In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., Computer graphics artist Norm Cox, now of Cox & Hall, Dallas, Texas, was finally hired to redesign the icons. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. San Antonio, Texas, which, architected by Computer Terminals, was named the 8008. You’re crazy.”

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JULY 2, 2023

make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc.

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