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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. Developing a domestic car-battery industry should be the focus of both corporations and the U.S. To keep U.S.

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

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” and Toronto, Ont., Laser printers.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. You pay your taxes on-line.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article.

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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. brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. Cupertino, Calif.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. Later, with Mazor and Faggin he filed for and was granted a patent for a “memory system for a multi-chip digital computer.”) You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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Giving you access to perks, including Spectrum magazine and many education and career resources. But like so many people my age, I grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s where I got hooked on personal computers. So the United States is the largest national security hacker on the planet, but it almost never engages in corporate espionage.

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