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Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. Torres Quevedo built his chess player to find out, as he explained in his 1917 book Mis inventos y otras p á ginas de vulgarizaci ó n (My inventions and other popular writings). 2079, 6 November 1915).

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Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. One of his favorites, from an essay, he penned in 1932 about the design and engineering of fabrics and clothing, was the duck: “I have always envied the duck. He can dive under water and come up dry.

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Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. Wendy is a Professor of Political Science and Principles Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future.

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Rather, the original spark often comes from a university lab , a renegade group at a large company, or a hobbyist building stuff for fun. Catmull and Blanchard had been involved with software designed to build 3D geometric objects at the University of Utah. So we bought two books each on how to start companies.

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Both machines were designed for consumers, not just hobbyists or the technically skilled. He turned to William “Bill" Lowe , who had given some thought to the design of such a machine. That machine would be the last PC designed outside IBM's development process. In August, Tandy launched its TRS-80 , which came with games.

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He's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute , where he specializes in the history of technology. We're back with my guest Jim Cortada, a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute and author of a comprehensive corporate history of IBM.

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In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. After earning a Ph.D.

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Left: MIT Museum; Right: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University Instead, it was Russian scientist Alexander Kobrinski who debuted the first clinically significant myoelectric prosthesis in 1960. A search of the MIT Museum’s database came up empty (no known example of the hearing glove exists), but I did find the entry on the Boston Arm.

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Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. Electronic-ink researchers had been pursuing color e-paper for years, as had other researchers around the world, in universities, corporate research labs, and startups. Designing them is as much art as science.

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In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. He was off to Princeton University in the autumn of 1961, returning to Bell Labs for the next few summers. 1962 and Ph.D. 1962 and Ph.D.

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In his remarks made at Stanford University during the award of the third Science Award for Electrochemistry to Dr. Vanessa Wood ( earlier post ), Prof. By the way, that starts at the top: So in my office the “Basics of Electrochemistry” is a book with a permanent place on the desk. However, it needs more than books. Batteries'

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Laser printers.

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He graduated from MIT in 1894 with a degree in electrical engineering, and within the year he (along with his friend George C. 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). which produced battery-operated clocks.

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Parness came to Amazon from Stanford and JPL, where he worked on robots like StickyBot and LEMUR, and was responsible for this bonkers microspine gripper designed to grasp asteroids in microgravity. My team sponsors research at MIT and at the University of Washington. “It’s crazy fun to work on.”

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Zittrain conducts research on what’s happening across the sweep of digital technology and writes about his findings in blogs, magazines, and books. Providing free access to books and legal decisions Much of Zittrain’s work looks at ways to make information more widely available. Or of not doing so.”

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