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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. Thereupon the typical PARC engineer would simplify the image. But when Warnock, a computer scientist with a Ph.D.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority will receive funding to execute a second phase of its electric bus program to install charging infrastructure (on-route & charging bank for depot chargers) and buy electric buses. Utah Department of Transportation. The Jacksonville Transportation Authority.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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Xerox buys into computing This wasn’t Xerox’s only big bet on computing. By the late 1960s, Xerox executives had begun to see information technology make an impact in the office environment. Mark Richards/Computer History Museum Kay envisioned a new sort of software environment and programming language for the Dynabook.

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

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One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories. The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people.

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Inside The Green Task Force

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Pasadena has its own city water and power company which means Pasadena can give its residents the option of buying green power - while at the same time the city has an agreement in place that forces them to buy coal-generated electricity from Utah power plants until the year 2026. Talk about a dichotomy.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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A limit was imposed on emissions from the power plants, and utilities were allowed to buy and sell permits to comply. states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec). Sources: Large electric generators. WCI covers seven U.S.

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