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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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The first was a television-style camera system (called a Return Beam Vidicon, or RBV) built by the Radio Corporation of America. Two days after the launch, Goddard received its first MSS image, showing the Dallas–Fort Worth area. (In Landsat’s winning tech was the Multispectral Scanner System ERTS was the first of its kind.

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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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The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. But the development of today’s graphical user interface was anything but simple. thesis in 1973.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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For Steven Jobs, the 29-year-old chairman of Apple and the Macintosh project’s director, it offered a chance to prove himself in the corporate world after a temporary setback: although he cofounded Apple Computer, the company had declined to let him manage the Lisa project. in Cupertino, Calif.,

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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“I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? — Mark - Dallas 21.

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