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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. Davidson, are the subjects of Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation by Rayvon Fouché (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).

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An Engineer Who Keeps Meta’s AI infrastructure Humming

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She enrolled at Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas in 2001 to study telecommunications engineering. She enrolled in a master’s degree program in project management in 2009 at Spain’s Pontifical University of Salamanca , continuing to collect additional certifications through Cisco in her free time.

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Daimler establishing “Startup Autobahn” in Stuttgart; focus on future of mobility

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Daimler is establishing Startup Autobahn, a new startup ecosystem in Stuttgart, in partnership with Silicon Valley accelerator Plug and Play, the University of Stuttgart and ARENA2036. The The focus is on ideas and projects associated with the future of mobility; hard- and software-oriented startups can apply at www.startup-autobahn.com/en/.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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Abbott, a physician as well as a lawyer, is a professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey’s School of Law. He also is an adjunct assistant professor at the Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and he wrote The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law. Charles, Mo.

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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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What Happens When a Happening Place Becomes Too Hot

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“Living in Milan has become really difficult,” she said, adding that it was only after a decade of pleading with unresponsive local administrators that she and the other residents had decided to go down the legal route. Milanese universities are also increasingly offering courses in English to broaden their international appeal.