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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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Choosing not to drive: A transient or a permanent phenomenon?

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In a 2011 article , Brandon Schoettle and I showed that the proportion of young Americans aged 16 to 39 years with a driver’s license decreased substantially from 1983 to 2008. (In In contrast, the proportion of older persons with a driver’s license increased during the same period.) This article reports on two follow-up analyses.

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NYU review study suggests potential for gauging health risks of air pollution on individual level

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The level of practical use of these personal monitoring methods has not yet been developed to the point of directly impacting policy (e.g., There are challenges in enabling policies that limit personal exposures, but the likely improvements in health and welfare are potentially massive. —Caplin et al. —Masoud Ghandehari.

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The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI

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A group photo [shown above] captured seven of the main participants. 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.” So who was this unknown person?

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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

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To assist with that effort, the IEEE Young Professionals group this year launched its Climate and Sustainability Task Force. The YP group is a global network of IEEE members who graduated with their first professional degree within the past 15 years. Partnering with IRENA, the U.N.,

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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There are two major reasons for this: first, EVs are not going to reach the numbers required by 2050 to hit their needed contribution to net zero goals , and even if they did, a host of other personal, social and economic activities must be modified to reach the total net zero mark. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

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This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. They cannot carry out any reconciliation, interconnection or automated linking with other processing of personal data.” In response, some companies use face-blurring tools to reduce the possibility of a leak containing personal data. This time, people care.

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