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US BLM issues draft PEIS for oil shale and oil sands; significantly scales back public land available for commercial leasing

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The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has published the Notice of Availability (NOA) of the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) and Possible Land Use Amendments for Allocation of Oil Shale and Tar Sands Resources on Lands Administered by the BLM in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. or oil sands development.

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Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces $39.8M in first-round application development awards

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Exascale refers to high-performance computing systems capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second, or a factor of 50 to 100 times faster than the nation’s most powerful supercomputers in use today. The awards, totaling $39.8 The application efforts will help guide DOE’s development of a U.S.

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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. References I first came across the Boston Arm when I was researching Norbert Wiener’s “hearing glove,” a device to help people who are deaf and hard of hearing interpret sound waves. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.,

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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The phrase refers to an individual who had made serious contributions to a domain, while also possessing multiple, and often diverse, talents and pursuits. For Sutherland, engineering design has a strong aesthetic dimension. Now, Clark envisioned an entirely new approach to computer design. The reason?

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

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. 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. Colorful weather maps on TV news programs.

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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. Bob Kahn graduated from high school in 1955.

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