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Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

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He made the most of it, soon coming up with the idea for a “ troller ,” a wheeled contact point at the end of an electric street car’s pantograph arm that improved the transfer of current from overhead wires. Despite his brilliance and relentless industry, Woods is mostly referred to—that is, when he is remembered at all—as “Black Edison.”

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Emblematic of the hope, faith, perseverance, and drive to overcome systemic legal and social barriers the song encapsulates is the life of self-taught technical genius Lewis H. So, he was a natural choice when Edison General Electric’s legal department was looking for someone to speak for the company in a spate of patent interference cases.

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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Still, Pedott liked the idea of the gadget, and after the original investors went bankrupt, he bought the patent and hired engineers to fix the glitches. In the 1990s, he became known for his long-running legal battle against Universal Manufacturing Corp. The only problem? The device did not work. And so the Clapper was born.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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He and a group of patent lawyers decided to seek out a test case to help establish a legal precedent. Thaler created Dabus in part to devise and develop new ideas. They approached Thaler, founder of Imagination Engines , in St. Charles, Mo. The company develops artificial neural network technology and associated products and services.

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The Net Neutrality Debate Is Back!

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In the United States, net neutrality has come to broadly refer to the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should not be able to prioritize or throttle data depending on the data’s source, or charge (either content providers or ISP customers) extra for faster service. “I

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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And of course, I'm referring to things like scientific papers, PDF documents. In other words, they were referring to the dark data problem. And so what we realized was that along the way, we had also built a completely novel type of architecture for integrating data and that's referred to as a data fabric. What is dark data?

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Univ. of Illinois team argues that renewable fuel standard needs to be modified, not repealed

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Although RFS is beginning to produce “ significant social benefits ”, Kesan and Slating assert, it is currently embroiled in a legal and political struggle over implementation. The RFS requires fuel refiners and importers to commercialize increasing volumes of different categories of biofuels through the year 2022.

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