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Survey Shows Overwhelming Interest in a Four-Day Workweek

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A shorter workweek, she says, would encourage more girls and women to join the engineering industry. A work/life balance Amanda Barbosa is a robotics engineering student at Federal University of ABC, in Brazil. It will minimize the time needed to be in-person at work.” It was the only opportunity I had to be with my family.”

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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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Robodies are multipliers for care staff, allowing them to work together with local helpers to provide protection and assistance around the clock while maintaining personal contact with people in the community. CERN ] Congrats to Starship, the OG robotic delivery service, on their $90m raise.

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Basic transportation, EV style

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Members of the new University of Texas San Antonio EAA chapter ready for go-kart competition. Two years later, the family moved to San Antonio to open a second Johnny Rockets. There, Javier enrolled at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) as a freshman committed to earning a mechanical engineering degree.

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. —Kate Keahey, a scientist at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and principal investigator for Chameleon.

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The Legacy of the Datapoint 2200 Microcomputer

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As the history committee chair of the IEEE Lone Star Section , in San Antonio, Texas, I am responsible for documenting, preserving, and raising the visibility of technologies developed in the local area. One such technology is the Datapoint 2200, a programmable terminal that laid the foundation for the personal computer revolution.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

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Madni sat at the helm of BEI Sensors and Controls, overseeing a product line that included a variety of sensor and inertial-navigation devices, but its customers were less varied—mainly, the aerospace and defense electronics industries. defense industry. 1972, University of California, Los Angeles, both in electrical engineering; Ph.D.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Ted Hoff is part of electronics industry legend. His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye.

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