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USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

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Overall, the USDA and DOE projects are designed to improve special crops to be grown for biofuels—including selected trees and grasses—by increasing their yield, quality and ability to adapt to extreme environments. Mockler, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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Heretofore, most interaction between men and computers has been slowed down by the need to reduce all communication to written statements that can by typed; in the past, we have been writing letters to rather than conferring with our computers.…The Some of these figures discussed this remarkable environment in a 1994 meeting.

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

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Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. And in the Xerox environment in ’76, all of a sudden you could create things and make lots of them.”

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