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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. —Robert Ricci, a research assistant professor of computer science at the University of Utah and principal investigator of CloudLab.

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DARPA awards up to $20M to NVIDIA to research high-performance, highly energy-efficient embedded processors for autonomous vehicles

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University of Utah and the University of Virginia. The first phase initiates concept development and looks to provide sufficient proof of impact on processing power efficiency to justify continuing development. Today’s cars aren’t personal computers—they’re far more complicated.” —NVIDIA.

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

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It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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

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The type of computing they envisioned was thoroughly interactive and personal, comprehensively networked, and completely graphical—with high-resolution screens and high-quality print output. But, Lampson argued, the Alto would also be perfect for much broader experiments in personal computing and networking.

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

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. Some of these real-world offspring, like the Apple Lisa computer and the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer, took many of their root concepts from PARC; others, like the Ada computer language and the Intel 1103 dynamic RAM chip, are less closely related. Laser printers.

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Driving Dystopia: Companies Are Getting Serious About Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Connectivity

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The concept even became a keystone issue for lobbyists trying to convince lawmakers to create regulations favorable to autonomous cars. But it never manifested due to just how ambitious the overarching concept happened to be. While China has the most CCTVs overall, Brits are assumed to have more digital eyes on them per person.

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U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Comes Closer

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One that I’m personally really excited about is supporting these genetic diversity campaigns. That’s now been in operations in two distribution centers here, one in Utah and one in Arkansas ever since. And then, yeah, moved into some really exciting use cases and things like animal husbandry. Wyrobek: Yeah, yeah.