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Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Mazda, Volvo and home dealerships promote

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The Sturgeon Bay acquire marks Kohli’s first acquisition since he purchased a Lincoln dealership in Iowa in January, additionally on his personal. Webb II mentioned he and Serve Allred, vice chairman, every personal minority stocks within the team. a Chevrolet-Buick bind in Cortez, Colo.,

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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. —Robert Ricci, a research assistant professor of computer science at the University of Utah and principal investigator of CloudLab.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms

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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. The Boston Arm, in turn, influenced the Utah Artificial Arm , developed by Stephen Jacobsen , who had completed his Ph.D. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.,

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U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Comes Closer

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One that I’m personally really excited about is supporting these genetic diversity campaigns. That’s now been in operations in two distribution centers here, one in Utah and one in Arkansas ever since. In the industry referred to as a fixed-wing aircraft. It’s one of those things very unglamorous, but really impactful.

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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. One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.”

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. The combination of windowing displays, menus, icons, and a mouse that is increasingly used on personal computers and workstations. 12, 1989, PC Magazine contains six articles on graphical user interfaces for personal computers and workstations.

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