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

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Exascale Lattice Gauge Theory Opportunities and Requirements for Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Paul Mackenzie (FNAL) with BNL, TJNAF, Boston University, Columbia University, University of Utah, Indiana University, UIUC, Stony Brook, College of William & Mary.

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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. Left: MIT Museum; Right: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University Instead, it was Russian scientist Alexander Kobrinski who debuted the first clinically significant myoelectric prosthesis in 1960. Was the Boston Arm a success?

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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from MIT in 1963. www.youtube.com As an undergraduate engineering student at Carnegie Tech (today’s Carnegie Mellon University), and then as a graduate student at Caltech (before he moved to MIT after one year), Sutherland continued to design and build more advanced light-seeking robots. At MIT, Sutherland met with Wesley A.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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

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While chemically converting natural gas to liquid fuels (GTL) is a proven technology that increases volumetric energy density, the current conversion approach through Fischer-Tropsch (FT-GTL) is challenged by both high capital costs and low conversion efficiencies. 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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Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture. University of Utah. University of Utah). energy storage MIT and Boston College will develop phase change materials.

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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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