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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If He was assigned to figure out how to overcome a challenging propagation environment so that customers could receive their data reliably. He then worked for a startup, Vivato , with offices in Spokane, Wash.,

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Coughlin is founder and president of Coughlin Associates in San Jose, Calif., I believe that IEEE should be open to all technologists and that we should create a safe environment that supports our members to be their best selves. IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.

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

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San Jose, Calif., Cheap pays off Although the Adobe group made some key technical breakthroughs, three other components were necessary to make PostScript a runaway success not just in low-volume professional publishing but in the high-volume office environment. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. 2, 1988, pp.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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If you let people just dive in and try anything they want, any trick they’ve read about in some magazine, you end up with a lot of circuits that are marginal and flaky” —Roland Albers Path timings were documented in initial project specifications and updated at the weekly meetings Albers called once the actual designing of circuits was under way.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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San Jose, Calif., 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. The project was given the internal moniker “4004.” Federico Faggin, now president and chief executive officer of Synaptics Inc.,

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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In a recent review of the Summer Games, an Epyx sports game for the C-64, the San Jose, Calif. The freedom that allowed us to do the C-64 project will probably never exist again in that environment.” ?Postscript Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute!

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By San Jose Mercury News ). But I dont think that would contribute to the global environment, to reduce [global warming gas] emissions." ( Wall Street Journal ). By partnering with these two industries. Bloomberg News ).

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