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NIST: Blockchain provides security, traceability for smart manufacturing; digital thread

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In other words, if I’m a manufacturer making a part for a product and I receive the specs for that part from the designer who’s upstream in the process, blockchain ensures that I can trust the data actually came from that person, is exactly what he or she sent, and was not interfered with during transmission. —Sylvere Krima. Resources.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Sandford decision , ruled that an enslaved person was not made free by entering a state whose laws forbid slavery. Upon further investigation, Maxim realized he had stumbled upon the person who could help him advance his own interests in the nascent field of electric lighting. Alamy In a piece of personal correspondence with Booker T.

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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. Other partners on CloudLab include Raytheon BBN Technologies, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and US Ignite, Inc.

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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Promote and demonstrate plug‐in electric vehicles through showcases in a variety of venues throughout New England: Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plug In America. Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Description. Federal funding. Federal funding.

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The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms

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In 1961, Norbert Wiener , the father of cybernetics, broke his hip and wound up in Massachusetts General Hospital. References I first came across the Boston Arm when I was researching Norbert Wiener’s “hearing glove,” a device to help people who are deaf and hard of hearing interpret sound waves. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.,

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EV Tax Credit: The Guide Your Car Dealer Doesn’t Want You To Read

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4 2023 $7500 $80,000 Personalize incentives Note: If you bought your EV before April 18, 2023, you can also check EV tax credit eligibility on FuelEconomy.gov. 4 2023 $7500 $80,000 Personalize incentives Note: If you bought your EV before April 18, 2023, you can also check EV tax credit eligibility on FuelEconomy.gov.

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

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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