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How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah

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Their groundbreaking research, conducted at the University of Utah , in Salt Lake City, and at their company, Evans and Sutherland , helped jump-start the computer graphics industry. A ceremony was held at the university on 24 March to recognize the computer graphics and visualization techniques with an IEEE Milestone.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real

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One such effort is a book that came out last fall called AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. The book is co-written by. Universal basic income. Charles Simonyi , the person who created Microsoft word. In the book, you say that an entirely new social contract is needed. Kai-Fu Lee on….

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Quantum Technology’s Unsung Heroes

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With such inspirations in mind, the science journalists Brian Lenahan and Kenna Hughes-Castleberry have written a new book On The Shoulders of Giants: 10 Quantum Pioneers of the Past (published this week), resuscitating the legacies of sometimes obscure figures in quantum history. But as well, we bring in the personal stories.

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College Admissions: Should AI Apply?

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To secure their place at the institution of higher learning of their choice, many of these students will need to write personal essays that reveal their perspective on the world and on themselves while showing how proficient they are at composing a cohesive, elegant narrative. One bugaboo for universities has been false positives.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. Wendy is a Professor of Political Science and Principles Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future.

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Remembering IEEE Spectrum Columnist Bob Lucky

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A MEMORABLE CAREER Lucky received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind., in EE from the university in 1961, he joined Bell Labs as a communications engineer. A LASTING LEGACY Lucky was an invited lecturer at nearly 100 universities. in 1957 and 1959.

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