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DOE BETO seeking input on Optima initiative for co-optimization of fuels and engines

Green Car Congress

The initiative intends to accelerate the widespread deployment of significantly improved fuels and vehicles (passenger to light truck to heavy duty commercial vehicles) by 2030. Instead, the internal combustion engine will continue to be integral to the transportation of people and goods for the foreseeable future. Earlier post.)

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

Cars That Think

By the beginning of the 21st century, South Korea had become a dominant power in the global semiconductor market, meeting more than 60 percent of international demand for memory chips alone. And in 2019, he was named a Person of Distinguished Service to Science and Technology, one of the nation’s highest honors. Chang Hae-Ja.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The second copy set you gave us is a little light. I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. And then my strategy, slowly, is what do I do to become this person’s vendor. Did you intern with Davidson? Could you make us another copy?”

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

Cars That Think

brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. Sketchpad users could not only draw points, line segments, and circular arcs on a cathode ray tube (CRT) with a light pen—they could also assign constraints to, and relationships among, whatever they drew. In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc.,

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

Cars That Think

From 1979 to 1982 he was a senior researcher at NTT Basic Research Labs and was promoted in 1982 to senior staff engineer of the company’s personnel and international affairs. From 2001 to 2005, he served as president of the International Speech Communication Association. He also served on the Computer Society’s governing board.

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Non-bike bike gear tested: HoverAir X1 is the cyclists’ drone I’ve been looking for

Baua Electric

And sometimes it’s just nice to grab some third-person shots of myself on the bike, or capture cool drone angles of the places I ride for fun. It also includes 32Gb of internal storage, so it’s one less memory card I have to worry about. Not magazine quality, but pretty good for a pocket-sized flying camera!

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

Networks that link personal computers in offices. 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. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.”

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