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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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from MIT in 1963. In Berkeley’s offices, the Sutherland brothers encountered his light-seeking robot squirrel “ Squee ,” now in the collection of the Computer History Museum, which also holds some of Berkeley’s papers. Adding to Sutherland’s excitement about MIT was the fact that Claude Shannon had moved there. The reason?

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ARPA-E selects 33 projects for $66M in awards; advanced biocatalysts for gas-to-liquids and lightweight metals

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The other program, Modern Electro/Thermochemical Advancements for Light-metal Systems (METALS, earlier post ), provides $32 million to 18 projects to find cost-effective and energy-efficient manufacturing techniques to process and recycle metals for lightweight vehicles. process intensification approaches for biological methane conversion.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the. light energy. uptake, and optimized light utilization. no rare earth materials, but is light, compact, and potentially. materials, but is light, compact, and has the potential to.

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

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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. Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St.

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