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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. The company created the first commercially available microprocessor, the 4004 , in 1971. Intel helped cement the region as a global center for technological innovation, the article says.

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When They Electrified Christmas

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Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. Croffut's account and many other wonderful facts about the history of decorative lights are available on the website Old Christmas Tree Lights.). of Chicago.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. No other publishing package then available used the same software for different output devices. Undeterred, Jobs and Robert Belleville, then director of engineering for Apple and now director of strategic planning for Convergent Technologies Inc., San Jose, Calif.,

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

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Doctors at UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, have developed a new method that uses three distinct, relatively new, technologies, whole genome sequencing surveillance, and machine learning, and electronic health records to identify undetected outbreaks and their transmission routes. Until perhaps now.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. As it was 1969, there were no semicustom ICs, gate array technology was in its infancy, and only primitive packaging was available—standard dual in-line packages (DIPs) were at least 0.125 inch thick—while logic and power transistors could not yet share the same piece of silicon.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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In January 1981, a handful of semiconductor engineers at MOS Technology in West Chester, Pa., MOS Technology was a merchant semiconductor house. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. We tried to get a feel for what these companies could do in the future by extrapolating from their current technology.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

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The trouble is you then have to stop right away, which brings about some pretty strong regenerative braking action, something that Chrysler needs to work on before making the Circuit available for sale. No coasting available. New technology. I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group.