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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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2023 Detroit Auto Show Recap – Where Have All the Cars Gone?

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My initial hotel reservation was for two nights, but as early as last week I knew I’d be booking it west on I-94 after lunchtime. That said, I do think that the New York and Los Angeles shows will continue to have a solid media day going forward. To be fair, product cycles play a part. Next year could be a stronger show.

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2024 Hyundai Santa Fe – Heading in a New Direction

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Around that same time, I was booking flights to fly to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to see the completely transformed Santa Fe in person. We also learned that there’s still more information to come – Hyundai kept mum on key details, telling us to check back during the Los Angeles Auto Show so often that it became a running gag.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

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It even traveled to Mars as part of the. Madni Current job: Distinguished adjunct professor, University of California, Los Angeles ; retired president, CEO, and CTO, BEI Technologies Date of birth: 8 September 1947 Birthplace: Mumbai, India Family: Wife (Taj), son (Jamal) Education: 1968 graduate, RCA Institutes ; B.S.,

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Mother’s Day Gift Guide: Nostalgic Beach Supplies, Egg Cups and More

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So I was excited to learn that this month, Steidl will publish a book of images the photographer Joel Sternfeld took in Nags Head in the summer of 1975. The book is currently available for preorder , so, in the meantime, I’m eyeing some other ’70s-inspired gifts for Mother’s Day.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He authored or coauthored more than 1,000 papers and books on speech recognition, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing. Twenty-six editions of his book Digital Speech Processing, Synthesis, and Recognition were published between 1985 and 2001. The SERC is an arm of the U.S. Boehm retired in May. Mills Award.