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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

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During his time at MIT, Penfield developed a course that made the second law of thermodynamics—which states that the more energy is transferred or transformed, the more of it is wasted—accessible to first-year students. After earning a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. Army in 1941.

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DOE awarding $1.16B to 9 battery component manufacturing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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The demonstration plant will produce NMC811 generating zero waste and 70% less greenhouse gases by using only 10% of the water and 30% of the energy versus traditional battery material production methods. The plant will be an expansion of its existing facility in St. Component Manufacturing (Cathode).

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DOE awarding $1.16B to 9 battery component manufacturing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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The demonstration plant will produce NMC811 generating zero waste and 70% less greenhouse gases by using only 10% of the water and 30% of the energy versus traditional battery material production methods. The plant will be an expansion of its existing facility in St. Component Manufacturing (Cathode).

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

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Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Since MAXC, the center has built prototypes of dozens of hardware and software systems—prototypes that sometimes numbered in the thousands of units. No biological organism can live in its own waste products,” Kay said. “If

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