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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

Green Car Congress

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. West Virginia University Research Corporation. Plug In America. Description. Federal funding.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

Cars That Think

We were invited out to Hasbro corporate headquarters in Rhode Island to give a presentation to the engineering team about what we could do. Ted Larson at Hasbro HQ in Rhode Island. for “Automated Music Personality,” or AMPbot for short. Bob and I started a robotics consultancy called OLogic Inc.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. When you have one person designing the whole computer, he knows that a little leftover gate in one part may be used in another part.” It’ll never work.’

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