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Physicists Spin Up Quantum Tornadoes

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The research, published in Nature , was conducted by a team of scientists affiliated with the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms and MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. These wave-shaped clouds, seen over an apartment complex in Denver, Colo., exhibit what’s called Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Rick Duffy/Wikipedia.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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It is for this work on packet communication technologies—as part of the project that became the ARPANET and in the foundations of the Internet—that Kahn is being awarded the 2024 IEEE Medal of Honor. We would figure out things like: Do we need more lines between Denver and Chicago?” Bob Kahn served on the MIT faculty from 1964 to 1966.

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