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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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While software on its own doesn’t release any emissions, it runs on hardware in data centers and steers data through transmission networks, which account for about 1 percent of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions each. In December 2023, representatives from nearly 200 countries gathered in Dubai for COP28, the U.N.’s

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

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PARC is one of three research centers within Xerox; the other two are in Webster, N.Y., When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. and Toronto, Ont., The originator of that phrase is unclear.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Teaming up with Stanley Mazor and Federico Faggin, he created the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. Early Neural Networks Hoff liked the engineering courses at Rensselaer, but not the narrow focus of the college itself. He had a toy train moving back and forth under computer control, balancing a broom­ stick.

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