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Ford launches app developer challenge to improve consumer understanding of personal fuel efficiency

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Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.

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Volkswagen’s MEB for EVs: long electric range, open-platform, open-space, pricing for the volume market; “tablet on wheels”

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These four main kits are now joined by the all-new Modularer Elektrifizierungsbaukasten (“Modular Electric Drive kit”, or MEB), being developed by the Volkswagen brand. It shows that we have four core innovations: smart sustainability, automated driving, intuitive interaction and personalized connectivity. Building toward I.D.:

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

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. The 20 PARC employees were housed in a small, rented building, “with rented chairs, rented desks, a telephone with four buttons on it, and no receptionist,” recalled David Thornburg, who joined PARC’s General Science Laboratory fresh out of graduate school in 1971. Laser printers.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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CalCars supports conversion programs as a strategy to increase awareness and support for PHEVs and thereby motivate automakers to build production PHEVs. Our goal is to enable owners to enlist a local electrician/engineer to convert their cars, initially with lead-acid batteries, for under $6,000 and less than two person-weeks of time. (We

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Fathers Can Be Gender Equity Advocates

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Travis is a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law , where she co-directs its Work Law and Justice Program. Is it personal? MT: My interest in engaging dads of daughters as gender equity advocates is both professional and personal. Having daughters fueled his urgency to act.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., This model-building can get very basic. He started his explorations with chemistry.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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In San Francisco on Feb. For several years, Yu had been intrigued by Kohn’s zeal for building a superfast RISC microprocessor, but he felt Intel lacked the resources to invest in such a project. Building the SRAMs using circuit-design techniques borrowed from dynamic RAM technology cut that to about 0.5 Microsoft Corp.

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