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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

Cars That Think

In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.” Kahn postponed his planned return to MIT and continued to work on expanding this network.

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

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The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. It was based in part on the Alohanet, a packet radio network developed at the University of Hawaii in the late 1960s. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

» Transportation | March 28, 2009 | by EV World The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles By Noel Adams Every so often I read articles, like the ones recently about a breakthrough from researchers at MIT, which will allow batteries to charge quickly, in this case, in 2 seconds.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs. Marketwatch ).

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