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GM planning to “own” the customer relationship beyond the vehicle; autonomous Volts, car sharing and fuel cells

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General Motors CEO Mary Barra and her leadership team outlined the company’s plans to capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership. The company shared its plans with investors during a conference at its Milford Proving Ground.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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Estrin, a computer science professor at Cornell Tech , in New York City, founded the school’s Public Interest Tech Initiative to give students that opportunity. IEEE is a place for setting intellectual standards for publications, and it creates a place for a lot of open dialogue through conferences.”.

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

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Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark. Terry Byland is the only person to have received this kind of implant in both eyes. I] went from being just a person that was doing the testing to being a spokesman,” he remembers.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. But now, Cerf sat alone in the lobby of San Francisco’s Jack Tar Hotel , on a break from a computing conference. It is rare for someone to be as capable as he is and as wonderful a person.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

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In 1966 he moved to the United States to study electronics at the RCA Institutes in New York City, a school created in the early 1900s to train wireless operators and technicians. “I I wanted to be an engineer who would invent things,” Madni says, “one who would do things that would eventually affect humanity. “If

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

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Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Networks that link personal computers in offices. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.”

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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(Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities. Just a missing persons report.

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