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Noodoe EV Opens New Headquarters in Houston

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According to Fortune magazine, Houston has become a major corporate center, home to 23 Fortune 500 companies, second only to New York City. “The Irvine office is a vital part of our operations. California and the West Coast represent a big share of our current EV installations.”

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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He studied at Seoul National University and then at Columbia University, in New York City, where he earned his doctorate under. As government influence declined, some alums from the first period who had worked at government research institutes also took corporate jobs. Favorite periodical: TIME magazine.

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

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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. He used Superpaint to make a videotape called “Vidbits” that was later shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. and Toronto, Ont.,

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Subscribers whose phones were tapped at the time of the raid included a range of New York commercial interests, with assets both large and small: a modeling agency and an insurance company; an art gallery and a lead mining company; and perhaps most sensationally, two publicly traded pharmaceutical corporations with competing patent interests.

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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. New York City and London, 1980), reprints his 1963 Ph.D. Smith et al.,

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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. and a major user of microprocessors, was looking for a vice president of corporate technology. and New York City. You’re crazy.”

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