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This town is going to cover its cemetery with solar canopies

Baua Electric

Éric Boquaire, the president of Brier’energie, told pv magazine France that the 8,000-square-meter (86,111-square-foot) canopy will consist of 5,000 solar panels. The municipality will fully finance the €3.35 That’s because the commune of Saint-Joachim is in the center of the Brière marsh. million ($3.6 million) installation.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

Cars That Think

He studied at Seoul National University and then at Columbia University, in New York City, where he earned his doctorate under. Then called KAIS (the “T” was added in 1981), Kim’s new employer was the first science and technology university in South Korea and remains one of the most prestigious. Frederick E.

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

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There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. He used Superpaint to make a videotape called “Vidbits” that was later shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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