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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

Cars That Think

His popular semiconductor workshops at KAIST inspired GoldStar (LG since 1995), Hyundai Electronics (Hynix since 2001), and Samsung to sponsor their own training programs at KAIST in the 1990s. Favorite periodical: TIME magazine. Patents: 15 (3 in the United States, 12 in South Korea). Hero: His father, Kim Byung-Woon.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

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. Second, they told Hoff, ‘‘We have diode salesman out there struggling like crazy to sell memories, and you want them to sell computers? You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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Climate Of Courage – Smart Women Are Making Me Think, Question My Beliefs & Change My Mind

Creative Greenius

During our environmental justice workshop, a friend of myine, a fellow white male organizer, took umbrage at what he perceived as the whole political correctness of the topic. Grief, after all, is the cost of being alive. I actually wised up a little that time a few years ago up in Berkeley at the 350.org org leaders convergence.

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