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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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To this day, Bush’s article—titled “As We May Think”—and his subsequent elaborations of networked information appliances are credited with shaping what would become the personal computer and the World Wide Web. The Atlantic Monthly And yet, if you watched this year’s Oscar-winning Oppenheimer , Bush is only a minor character.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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Raskin’s proposal did not impress anyone at Apple Computer enough to bring much money from the board of directors or much respect from Apple engineers. This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” It appeared in the December 1984 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet

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I’ve enjoyed reading magazine articles about Ethernet’s 50th anniversary, including one in the The Institute. The designers of Ethernet had wisely chosen a sweet spot among the tradeoffs: 10 megabits per second and a length of 1,500 meters. I told Mark about my idea of using store-and-forward switching to increase LAN performance.

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ETAutoTech Summit 2024 kick-starts today, themed ‘Engineering Sustainable Transition’ – ET Auto

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New Delhi: As the automotive industry navigates through a highly disruptive phase it becomes all the more important to engineer or design sustainable transition.

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Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine Turns 200

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Babbage set to work on the concept for a Difference Engine, a machine that would use a clockwork mechanism to solve polynomial equations. That is, he wanted to build a full-scale Difference Engine. His magnificent Difference Engine proved far more difficult to build than his note suggested. Difference Engine No.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. This means that storing and distributing energy is as important as its generation.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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Discussions at chip design conferences rarely get heated. But a year ago at the International Symposium on Physical Design , things got out of hand. The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. Wash, rinse, repeat.

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