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USC study shows promising potential for giant-kelp-based biofuel with depth-cycling approach

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Marine BioEnergy invented the concept of depth-cycling the kelp, and USC Wrigley scientists conducted the biological and oceanographic trial. B) Parsons Landing (PL) was the site of collection for all the kelp used in the trial and also used as a reference for growth of kelp in its natural setting.

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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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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. Gee,’ I said, ‘A secret standard—I find this a hard concept to understand.’” had taught him where to start.

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U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Comes Closer

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That’s now been in operations in two distribution centers here, one in Utah and one in Arkansas ever since. In the industry referred to as a fixed-wing aircraft. I don’t have a great-- I’m trying to think of a good reference to kind of bring it to life. Cass: So could you just tell us a little bit about how that tech works?

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The nodes rolled out later that year: at UCLA in September; the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in October; the University of California, Santa Barbara , in November; and the University of Utah in December. Kahn postponed his planned return to MIT and continued to work on expanding this network. Why would he step back now? “I

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

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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. What an ideal concept that would be for Xerox.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, many of the early concepts for windows, menus, icons, and mice were arduously researched at Xerox Corp.’s From the Alto’s concepts, starting in 1975, Xerox’s System Development Department then developed the Star and introduced it in 1981—the first such user-friendly machine sold to the public.

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