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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article. It appeared in the December 1984 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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Toyota to offer free access to THUMS virtual human body model software

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Designed to aid vehicle safety technologies’ research and development, and developed in cooperation with Toyota Central R&D Labs., THUMS was the world’s first virtual human body model software when it launched in 2000. Free access to THUMS, and subsequent use by a wider variety of users, is expected to enhance vehicle safety.

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This CAD Program Can Design New Organisms

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We believe that a key enabling technology in this quest is a computer-aided design (CAD) program for genome editing, which our organization is launching this week at the. Those fragments of synthesized DNA can then be sent to a foundry for assembly, and finally to a lab where the designed genomes can be tested in cells.

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The Future of the Transistor Is Our Future

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Transistors: past, present, and future How we’ll continue to improve transistor technology is relatively clear in the short term, but it gets murkier the farther out you go from today. In the near term, you can glimpse the transistor’s future by looking at its recent past. Getting to the future Will we be able to achieve these feats?

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Quimera, IMSA and ALMS aim to launch international Electric Vehicle motorsport series in 2013

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Strategic sustainability project specialists Quimera, the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) and the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón (ALMS) are collaborating to develop an international Electric Vehicle motorsport series. 4800 mm long / 2000 mm width. Quimera all-electric GT prototype. 450-700 bhp.

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Wärtsilä to begin long-term, full-scale testing of ammonia as marine fuel in four-stroke engine

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million) grant from the Norwegian Research Council through the DEMO 2000 program. This DEMO 2000 project is another stepping stone for reaching our ambitious climate targets and it is also aligned with our recently published hydrogen strategy. The testing is made possible by a NOK 20-million (US$2.1

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Daimler joins multiple initiatives for a sustainable raw material supply chain; future focus on battery cell supply chain

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A future step on the road to sustainable raw material procurement will be the complete transparency of, for example, the supply chain for battery cell production. Aluminum is playing an increasingly important role as a lightweight-design material for electric cars as it is much lighter than steel.

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