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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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Kahn Current job: Chairman, CEO, and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) Date of birth: 23 December 1938 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Family: Patrice Ann Lyons, his wife Education: BEE 1960, City College of New York ; M.A. 1962 and Ph.D.

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Enthusiasm electric!

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Also noted as important achievements were the Electrify America sponsorship that provided chapter support, the EVA efforts to help shape EV-friendly building codes and policy, the EVA participation at Fully Charged LIVE , and the over 500 EV events of all sizes hosted by chapters around the country.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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Henry Ellis Warren was born in Boston on 21 May 1872, a decade before Edison’s Pearl Street Station went online, in New York City, ushering in the dawn of the electric age. The black hand is connected to a standard mechanical pendulum clock; the gold hand is driven by a synchronous motor. electricity lines.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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The Sutherland brothers, through a connection of their mother’s, began visiting Edmund Berkeley in New York City from their home in Scarsdale while Ivan was still in grade school. At the time, Berkeley was establishing himself as a leading author, publisher, and consultant for the new world of digital computers.

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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

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After the horrific events of the next day, the Federal Bureau of Investigation swung into action. Connecting that Gmail account to a phone number and then to its owner, Paul Lovley of Halethorpe, Md., The 6 January investigation showed the power of seeking the digital connections between those dots. on 6 January.

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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. Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Laser printers. Networks that link personal computers in offices. Local area network.

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Proterra beefs up its battery expertise: Q&A CTO Dustin Grace

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The company has sold some 950 buses to transit agencies, airports, universities, national parks and private companies in 43 states and provinces. New York City Transit came to us a few years ago and said, “What happens if a manhole cover explodes out of the ground? We’re working to get that into the industry.

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