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Skolnik began his career in 1955 at MIT ’s Lincoln Laboratory. While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. 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.

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Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. I now read scientific books and other nonfiction only.”

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From Bell Labs to Columbia Unger received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1952 from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. in EE from MIT in 1953 and 1957, respectively. He went on to earn a master’s degree and Ph.D. He retired in 2005.

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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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The surprising proximity of the surface MIT transition temperature of nonstoichiometric films with that of the fully oxygenated bulk suggests that the electronic properties in the surface region are not significantly affected by oxygen deficiency in the bulk. I always say that in basic science we are discovering the alphabet.

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Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. And, of course, my [older] brother read really well, and my father was a professor with a lot of books to read. His ability to cross disciplines started at MIT. “At

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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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MARCH 1, 2022

Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. Versatility as Virtue While he spent many years as a professor of electrical engineering at MIT, Bush sought to imbue fellow professors with a goal of being practical, versatile and deep. Compiled by G.

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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. From the very beginning, e-paper seemed magical.

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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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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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He graduated from MIT in 1894 with a degree in electrical engineering, and within the year he (along with his friend George C. Clocks 1925–1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2000) is the definitive book on Warren clocks, documenting over 700 models of Telechron and GE clocks. Jim Linz’s Electrifying Time: Telechron and G.E.

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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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If there’s only one item in the bin, and you know that item is a book, you can make an assumption it’s incompressible, and you can manipulate it accordingly. My team sponsors research at MIT and at the University of Washington. And the team at University of Washington is actually looking at picking.

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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.

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