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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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Stress Levels Revealed in Micro-Beads of Sweat

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And sometimes, a person is physically unable to create sufficient sweat volumes to analyze with existing technologies. Reading off a person's glucose and cortisol levels is the goal. The technology, developed by Dallas-based EnLiSense LLC and the University of Texas at Dallas , is promising enough that the U.S.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]). However, the company pulled the plug on U.S.

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The Algorithm that Mapped Omicron Shows a Path Forward

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The task of vaccines is to present antigens that will trigger this immune response without making the person sick. Each row in a table represents a new virus sample from a flu-positive person, and each column represents antisera from infected ferrets. Wilks and Derek Smith of the University of Cambridge. Chris Philpot.

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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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The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys

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Much like jazz musicians improvising, engineers go with the flow at team meetings, he says: One person comes up with an idea, and another suggests ways to improve it. in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University , in Dallas, de Geus joined General Electric in Research Triangle Park, N.C. wide engineers too.”

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. The list of supporters/partners now includes links to the members’ web sites along with a contact person. Keene, N.H., Santa Barbara, CA.,