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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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MITEI Mobility Systems Center awards four projects for low-carbon transportation research

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To break down these changes by sociodemographic groups, with a particular emphasis on low-income and marginalized communities. To use these insights to posit how changes to infrastructure, equipment, and policies could help shape travel recovery to be more sustainable and equitable.

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From EE to VC: Eileen Tanghal's Journey

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Eileen Tanghal Employer: Black Opal Ventures, New York City Title: Cofounder Education: MIT, London Business School “We want to improve health care accessibility and affordability,” Tanghal says. “To A diverse workforce, says Tanghal, produces the most inclusive and most profitable products and services.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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He hopes to talk with Turkey's science minister and the TOGG [Turkish Automobile Joint Venture Group], a new company formed by the government. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. I'm a very competitive person," he says, "so I was motivated to try and disprove these articles and actually build this device.". Brian Minnick.

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The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms

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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. The company agreed to fund a working group to develop a myoelectric prosthetic arm. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., Was the Boston Arm a success?

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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The type of computing they envisioned was thoroughly interactive and personal, comprehensively networked, and completely graphical—with high-resolution screens and high-quality print output. But, Lampson argued, the Alto would also be perfect for much broader experiments in personal computing and networking.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. He works for Systemica, who has been contracted to design the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system for the citadel of Masdar. Bandivadekar, A., Heywood, J., Kasseris, E.,

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