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Video Friday: Ascento Pro

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ICRA 2022 – May 23-27, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA, USA Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. DeepRobotics ] MIT students and researchers from MIT Sea Grant work with local oyster farmers in advancing the aquaculture industry by seeking solutions to some of its biggest challenges.

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Former IEEE Chief Financial Officer Richard Schwartz Dies at 77

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A decade later he earned a master’s degree in engineering from Drexel University , in Philadelphia. Joel Moses MIT professor emeritus Life Fellow, 80; died 29 May Moses taught electrical engineering and computer science at MIT for 50 years. in computer science in 1967 from MIT. Moses earned a Ph.D.

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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White was the first American chair of the International Conference on Large High-Voltage Electric Systems. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, now Virginia Tech, and received a master's degree in industrial management as a Sloan Fellow at MIT. National Park System.

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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , he also was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the MIT board of trustees. At the time, he also attended night school at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia, where he earned an associate degree in engineering in 1963.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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He graduated from MIT in 1894 with a degree in electrical engineering, and within the year he (along with his friend George C. In 1935, Henry Warren [right] received a medal from the Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia, for his invention of the Telechron synchronous motor. The final model, the Type E, came out in 1929.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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He was largely responsible for moving the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in 1978 from Philadelphia to San Francisco. He earned a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics in 1977 from MIT and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1980 from Harvard. for 37 years.

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

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The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. If a page had no uppercase Qs in it, the character generator would economize on internal memory by not generating a pattern for a capital “Q.” Doug Engelbart [of SRI International Inc.

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