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Volvo Car outlines technological future: new Scalable Platform Architecture and focus on four-cylinder engines; Concept You

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SPA will combine what Volvo says will be the highest degree of high strength steel qualities in the industry to date with the extensive use of aluminum in the front structure, doors, chassis and power train. With this arrangement the total power of the engine and KERS is applied to all four wheels.

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

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Some researchers say PARC was a product of the 1960s and that decade’s philosophy of power to the people, of improving the quality of life. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.”

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