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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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Believing that young generations have the responsibility, ability, and freedom to shape our future, Metra is focused on making IEEE an inclusive community through which all its members can find the knowledge and networking opportunities to foster their professional and personal growth.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. The environment?

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

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. Laser printers.

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Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability

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In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “ A Plea for Lean Software ,” published in Computer , the magazine for members of the IEEE Computer Society, which I read early in my career as an entrepreneur and software developer. A version of this post was originally published on my personal blog, Berthub.eu. Software has gotten huge.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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It's buried deep in documents like PubMed articles and patent filings. Deep Learning can help researchers pull that data out of those documents. And of course, I'm referring to things like scientific papers, PDF documents. At least, that's the strategy of a startup called Vyasa.

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Octopus launches ‘Electric Dreams’ – An EV leasing company unlocking salary sacrifice for businesses

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Octopus, who already offer business and personal leasing through its Octopus Electric Vehicles brand, has designed their scheme to be low effort and zero cost for a business to set up. driveEV is the UK's only online magazine dedicated to electric cars. We have seen a seven-fold jump in salary sacrifice enquiries in the last year.