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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership

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The society recently launched several programs to engage them, including career fairs, travel grants, and networking opportunities with researchers. The students had a hand in creating a welcome kit for conference attendees. Job fairs and travel grants Several new initiatives have been rolled out at the society’s flagship conferences.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear.

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“Software-Defined Car” project seeks to develop standardized rules and processes; SofDCar

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The three-year SofDCar project is funded with a grant of some €43 million by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). —Professor Ralf Reussner from KASTEL – KIT’s Institute of Information Security and Dependability. —Professor Michael Weyrich.

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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. 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. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

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But now, I mean, today we have over 300 granted patents, another 90 that will be approved soon. Cass: So I guess the question there is— so you come to a company, the company has its own internal development engineers. So we needed to bring our design guy, our branding person, our mechanics person, our software engineer.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., The project was given the internal moniker “4004.” in Rochester, NY. San Jose, Calif.,

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Fathers Can Be Gender Equity Advocates

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Is it personal? MT: My interest in engaging dads of daughters as gender equity advocates is both professional and personal. Dads of daughters can also follow Ken Denmead's GeekDad blog , check out the Go Science Girls website, and buy one of Debbie Sterling's GoldieBlox engineering kits for their daughter's next birthday.

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