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The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms

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Wiener’s bad luck turned into fruitful conversations with his orthopedic surgeon, Melvin Glimcher. After many design iterations and improvements, the Boston Arm debuted in 1968 at a press conference at Massachusetts General Hospital. in 1973 at MIT under Robert Mann and then returned to his alma mater, the University of Utah.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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As Sutherland put it in his thesis , “The Sketchpad system makes it possible for a man and a computer to converse rapidly through the medium of line drawings. Computer History Museum In 1968, Sutherland moved to the University of Utah, and he cofounded a new startup to pursue 3D computer graphics.

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The Story Behind Pixar’s RenderMan CGI Software

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From Utah and NYIT to Lucasfilm As a doctoral student studying computer science at the University of Utah , in Salt Lake City, Catmull developed the principle of texture mapping, a method for adding complexity to a computer-generated surface. Hanrahan joined Pixar after its launch. The Adventures of André & Wally B.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.” 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. I went out to pay for the conference room,” Kahn says.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture. University of Utah. University of Utah). generation.

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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. Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St.

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