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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

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the John Bardeen professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana , and the creator of the first LEDs. The photographs appeared in the original print version. Take a look around during the next few days,” advised Nick Holonyak Jr. , It was the adventure of outer space that called to him.

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AI’s Grandmaster Status Overshadows Chess Scandal

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grandmaster, of cheating during their game at the Sinquefield Cup , in St. And so well do computers help in the home preparation of the opening, the early moves of a game, that players, including Carlsen, will sometimes deliberately play a second-best move just to force the opponents out of “book.” It’s my claim to fame.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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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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