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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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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. —Kate Keahey, a scientist at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and principal investigator for Chameleon.

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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. Ohio State University. Iowa State University. University of Pittsburgh. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Penn State University Park.

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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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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. Left: MIT Museum; Right: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University Instead, it was Russian scientist Alexander Kobrinski who debuted the first clinically significant myoelectric prosthesis in 1960. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.,

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

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Networks that link personal computers in offices. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. Menus list choices of action.

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