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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

These vehicles are the green machines that will provide a critical part of the renewable and sustainable society that we need for the future. [ That is, PHEVLERs can store electricity whenever sun and wind-generated electricity is plentiful, and then can send stored power back into the smart grid at times when more electric power is needed.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

1 $100,000 Grant Moving in the Right Direction? Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid? New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol. 2 PIA Meets CARB Move CARB Forward AltCar Expo 2007 Arnold Amped Up? 100K Mile Club Newsletter Vol. htm Advocates of the Th! htm Advocates of the Th!

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article. So one key challenge for the design group was to use inexpensive parts and to keep the parts count low.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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Clipping is a software routine that calculates which part of a graphic object is to be displayed and displays only that part on the screen. The device had loose tolerances and few moving parts, so that it cost perhaps a quarter as much to build as previous ball mice.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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is already up to his elbows in electronic parts, digging through stacks of dusty circuit boards. Ted Hoff is part of electronics industry legend. But the technical part of Hoff’s mind has no off-switch, and he quickly concluded that the engineers were going in the wrong direction. Ted) Hoff Jr. in Rochester, NY. San Jose, Calif.,

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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. It was based in part on the Alohanet, a packet radio network developed at the University of Hawaii in the late 1960s.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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In the course of the ensuing criminal trial, Shannon, Asmann, and Ruh were all granted immunity in exchange for testifying against Broady, who emerged as the brains behind the operation. In part this was because the state’s penal code had explicitly defined illegal wiretapping as an unwarranted physical connection to a telephone line.