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JUNE 29, 2023

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). Part of a continuing series looking at historical artifacts that embrace the boundless potential of technology.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Skolnik began his career in 1955 at MIT ’s Lincoln Laboratory. The course was the basis for his 1962 book Introduction to Radar Systems. He left MIT in 1959 to join Electronic Communications, now part of Raytheon. Picard was chief executive of Raytheon and helped the company become a leader in tactical missile systems.

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JULY 9, 2022

He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. Favorite books “I made a conscious decision to stop reading fiction at age 15, when I was a voracious reader. I now read scientific books and other nonfiction only.” Zadeh Date of Birth Feb. patent, two Iranian patents. Kalman in 1972.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Assembling of IBM’s Parts Back in the late 19th century, as the U.S. Time-recording devices tracked when workers arrived and left, while scales weighed everything from meat at a butcher shop to industrial machine parts. The end of the war opened up Europe’s huge market, and smaller ones in South America and parts of Asia.

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JULY 13, 2023

And, of course, my [older] brother read really well, and my father was a professor with a lot of books to read. in 1952 in solid-state physics, he joined MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory , in Lexington, Mass., He was part of a team there that developed the world’s first random-access magnetic memory. It was terrible.” as a researcher.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. Steven Cherry Selling businesses off when they became commodities is part of a pattern.

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JULY 30, 2023

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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OCTOBER 10, 2023

This article is adapted from the author’s new book , We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). Don’t make the plan part of your will itself, because wills become public records, and you don’t want sensitive information available to everyone. Your father appears. It’s before his diagnosis.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

This division was charged with computerizing editing, sound design and mixing, special effects, and accounting for the company's books, as if this fourth challenge would be as difficult as the other three. Here I'll pick up the story as adapted from my narrative in A Biography of the Pixel , published this month by MIT Press.

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MARCH 11, 2023

A decade later, in the 2010s, the battery EV began an astounding reversal of fortune, thanks in no small part to the engineers at ACP, whose electric-drive technology informed the development of the Roadster, the car that launched Tesla Motors. By the 2020s, automakers around the world were producing millions of EVs a year.

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JULY 21, 2021

As Gerstner noted in his 2002 book , “What my colleagues seemed unwilling or unable to accept was that the war was already over and was a resounding defeat—90 percent market share for Windows to OS/2's 5 percent or 6 percent." This article is based on excerpts from IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (MIT Press, 2019).

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JANUARY 22, 2022

Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. The research team decided to add a front light to the display, something that was not part of Triton, working hard to ensure that the light rays hit the ink layer at an angle that maximizes reflectivity.

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APRIL 20, 2024

It is for this work on packet communication technologies—as part of the project that became the ARPANET and in the foundations of the Internet—that Kahn is being awarded the 2024 IEEE Medal of Honor. Kahn postponed his planned return to MIT and continued to work on expanding this network. 1962 and Ph.D. But Roberts asked Kahn to stay.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Joy Buolamwini ‘s AI research was attracting attention years before she received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 2022. In her new book, Unmasking AI : My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines , Buolamwini describes her own awakenings to the clear and present dangers of today’s AI. million views to date.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

He graduated from MIT in 1894 with a degree in electrical engineering, and within the year he (along with his friend George C. Part of a continuing series looking at historical artifacts that embrace the boundless potential of technology. Today, Electric Time custom-manufactures tower clocks, street clocks, and building clocks.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

But robot-friendly bins are simply not the reality for the vast majority of items in an Amazon warehouse, and a big part of the reason for this is (as per usual) humans making an absolute mess of things, in this case when they stow products into bins in the first place. So those factors are part of our environment as well.

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JUNE 4, 2022

The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. When I asked him how he got one, he told me that he went around to the various laboratories, collected parts that people owed him, and put it together himself.”

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One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? cheaper (frame, electric motors, battery), lasts longer (less moving parts = less to break and maintain) and just a greater win, more future compatible too. because most of GMs profits comes from after market parts. Interesting in any case.

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