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

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Tanenbaum went on to serve as president of AT&T’s New Jersey Bell (now part of Verizon ) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1949 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, and earned a Ph.D. At the time, Bell Labs was the research arm of AT&T.

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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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This 6-minute documentary, about the restoration of a 1758 grand orrery —so called because it includes the outer planets—is worth watching because it shows the internal gears and clockwork mechanisms: A predecessor to the orrery was the armillary sphere , which featured a ball representing Earth at its center and stars rotating around it.

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HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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The University of Bremen is the scientific base of the international project known as EMeRGe (Effect of Megacities on the transport and transformation of pollutants on the Regional and Global scales). Ground measurements are being taken in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Thailand, for example.

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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Larsson Blind, who comes from a family of reindeer herders, spoke to IEEE Spectrum by video call from her home in the northernmost part of Sweden. Stephens , director of Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, in Boston. Faye McNeill’s group at Columbia University. about 0.6 °C. candidate in V.

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Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety

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All the parts of our computing systems today are benchmarked—that is, compared to similar components in a controlled way, with quantitative score assessments. Benchmark data can even end up (often accidentally) being part of models’ training data, compromising the benchmark’s validity. These benchmarks help drive innovation.