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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. While working toward his Ph.D. Date of birth Oct. MS, 1959, Ph.D.,

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. Menus list choices of action. But the development of today’s graphical user interface was anything but simple.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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Since the 1973 oil crisis, a plethora of books and instruction manuals have been published in the US on the subject of how to build small stills to produce inexpensive 192-proof alcohol (hydrous ethanol) to be used to blend with gasoline in motor vehicles. Current Legal Requirement for Use of Anhydrous Ethanol in the United States.

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Fathers Can Be Gender Equity Advocates

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After the article was published, I received an email from Michelle Travis , who was writing a book about dads and daughters. Travis is a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law , where she co-directs its Work Law and Justice Program. I was one of the fathers featured in the book.) Is it personal?

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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I’m very excited to talk to him about his new book which is titled Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age in Five Extraordinary Hacks. Schneider: Before we talk about your book, tell me a little bit about yourself. Shapiro: So I’m a professor of law and philosophy at Yale University.

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