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MITEI releases report on 3-year study of future mobility; technological innovation, policies, and behavioral changes all needed; “car pride” an issue

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Armstrong, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. The study team of MIT faculty, researchers, and students focused on five main. —Sergey Paltsev, deputy director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and senior research scientist at MITEI. —MITEI Director Robert C. —William H.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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IBM's original manufacturing forecasts called for 1 million machines over three years, with 200,000 the first year. It did not matter that Microsoft's software was notorious for having bugs or that IBM's was far cleaner. 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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