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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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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. Kim’s colleagues at Fairchild Semiconductor’s research and development laboratories called him “Professor CCD.” Chang Hae-Ja. Frederick E. Chang Hae-Ja.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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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 1964, Douglas Engelbart , a research project leader at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif.,

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The SurplusCenter : {Returnto top of page} Used EVs For Sale EV Finder The EV TradinPost : EVs & parts wanted and for sale TriangleEAA List {Returnto top of page} EV Magazines andNewsletters AlternativeFuel Vehicle Group ElectricCars.Com :Net-zine ElectrifyingTimes: Cool magazine! Discover the potential!

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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This coming February, the Cygnus NG-17 spacecraft will launch from NASA Wallops, in Virginia, on a routine resupply mission to the International Space Station. Concurrently, we'll take impedance measurements, which will let us peek into the internal electrical properties of the fibers. Bob O'Connor.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

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"This vehicle is so light it doesnt even require power steering," said Chrysler spokesman Nick Cappa. More Malls shed stores Vacancy rates accelerate as retailers confront spending slump. Power will come from a 200 kilowatt, or 268 horsepower, electric motor. More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd. The most notorious problem was “sparkle,” a defect that caused small spots of light to appear on the display screen. Another flaw is the computer’s crude internal software. Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! Then Al would go in and do some good.

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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. Doug Engelbart [of SRI International Inc. The computer they wanted was a PDP-10 from Digital Equipment Corp.

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